Have you thought about looking into a rheostat (basically a dimmer) or thermostat? You can even go to Home Depot and find a lightswitch dimmer that's adjustable and plug your heat pad into that. You can mark the spot where you can set it and keep temps perfect...They are only a few dollars. If the snake could burn itself on the surface, then the temps were most definitely well over 100 degrees, and still probably are, even on the surface of the turf. Even if the turf isn't hot enough to burn her, if it's still quite hot, she could unknowingly spend too much time at too high of temps and do organ damage. The best way to check accurate surface temps is with an infrared temp gun, and I believe you can find cheap ones at electronics stores. I got mine from a reptile show. They definitely give a more accurate surface temp than any probe thermometer I have seen.
Ball Pythons, for some reason, seem to have trouble realizing temperature extremes as easier as other snakes, in my experience, and have tendencies to "cook" themselves by accident. Back in the day when I had a Ball Python, I used to keep him on turf, and he still somehow managed to work his way under that too...
With the dimmer, you can safely maintain the heat source so that no matter if the snake comes into direct contact with it, she cannot get burned, etc.
Excellent to see her nice recovery though!
here is a shot of her in the blue and me holding her yesterday.
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