After lurking for ages, I finally have my very own Ball! "Schnapps" is a male butter, just over 3.5ft. Current setup is an AP Carpet Cage (36L x 24D x 15H), with two 8.5 circle screens in the top. As the cage was originally for an arboreal snake (Diamond Carpet cross), I used CHE's and lamps for heating. However, I'm given to understand that Balls would much rather have belly heat. Preliminary research suggests my options are UTH, heat cable, or flexwatt (or similar). The cage does have grooves for flexwatt, so that's a plus. Can I get a quick-and-dirty rundown of pros and cons for the different belly heat options?
ETA: I do plan to use a thermostat no matter what I go with, but I've held off on buying one until I make sure it's compatible with the heat source. A temp gun should be here tomorrow. Living in FL, not much heat is needed, so for the moment he has a (very) dimmed CHE.
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