i got a mat stat today pluged my heat mat in2 it and my temp is at 70 and the stat is turned right up to 92 is it broken ????????

Are you sure it's not the heat mat broken (or fuse blown) as it sounds as if it's not outputting any heat? Could be the stat broken which fails "off". What type of stat is it?
Graham.

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the heat mat is working cus its hot and he stat light is on plus h.m is exo terra and the stat is habistat

i personally dont like stats. make shure that the viv is not to big or not to much glass

its a faunarium (plastic)

so how do you regulate the temps in your vivs??

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Theres been tears along the way, but we never cried alone, the 4 of us have grown, and our friendship never ends! (Spice Girls-Right back at ya)

i travel a bit and ones when i left for couple of days one of those yokes went mad. thanks god it was just two days other ways my python would be good for supper only. i have couple 25w bulbs and viv big enough to accommodate increase in temp. dont know what gonna do if python and boa gonna grow up tho!

Alinoee has stated that he/she doesn't keep his/her snakes in vivs - they have free run of an entire room.

That said, a snake that has access to an unstatted mat can still burn itself, whether it's in a viv or not.

If the mat stat is set to 92 and the temperature on the mat (make sure you're measuring the surface temperature where the probe is) is only 70 degrees, then yes, there's probably a hiccup there.

If the heat mat feels warm, then the thermostat is probably correct and the thermometer is probably what's wrong. Where is it positioned and what kind of thermometer is it?

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