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2 Under Tank Heaters?
My room is chilly in the winter and i dont want to use bulbs. i have a ten gallon, could i use two under tank heaters hooked up to two thermostats? one for the cool and one for the hot side? im setting up for a ball python.
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Re: 2 Under Tank Heaters?
The simple answer to your question is yes.
As long as you set up a heat gradient so the snake has a warm end a cool end then it really doesn't matter how you achieve that.
Some people use a smaller uth on the cool end to raise the ambient temps in a tank and it works fine, especially controlled separately with 2 t-stats
Jerry Robertson

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Re: 2 Under Tank Heaters?
I'm going to have to disagree....
UTH's aren't really good enough to raise the ambient temps in a tank...They will help with basking temps, but really won't do too much for the air temp. I mean if your just off by a couple of degree then maybe, but if your room is like 68 degrees or lower, it won't be good enough.
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Re: 2 Under Tank Heaters?
 Originally Posted by Animals As Leaders
I'm going to have to disagree....
UTH's aren't really good enough to raise the ambient temps in a tank...They will help with basking temps, but really won't do too much for the air temp. I mean if your just off by a couple of degree then maybe, but if your room is like 68 degrees or lower, it won't be good enough.
You'd be surprised.
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Re: 2 Under Tank Heaters?
 Originally Posted by Animals As Leaders
I'm going to have to disagree....
UTH's aren't really good enough to raise the ambient temps in a tank...They will help with basking temps, but really won't do too much for the air temp. I mean if your just off by a couple of degree then maybe, but if your room is like 68 degrees or lower, it won't be good enough.
There is a few things to also do like covering 95% of the lid so heat doesn't escape.
If you set the hot end UTH at 92-93 and the cool end uth to 85-88 then the ambient temp should raise sufficiently.
It is after all a 10 gal tank.
Jerry Robertson

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Re: 2 Under Tank Heaters?
I've done it before and it doesn't work lol...
I guess it depends how cold the room is, and what your definition of cold actually is. Here in upstate NY it gets really cold...And when I tried it I couldn't get it above 73. It was 68 in my room at the time.
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Re: 2 Under Tank Heaters?
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Well I was referring to a tank setup not tubs...Although I am quite surprised at how effective it seems to be working for you. I could never get my ambient temps up to where I wanted using uth's in my tanks...learn something new everyday...thanks for the pics btw. I'm a see it to believe it kind of guy, so thanks for the proof.
Last edited by Animals As Leaders; 01-20-2011 at 08:55 PM.
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