My current tank has a wooden top, so the only way I could heat it was to put UTH. Unfortunetly this did not go well, the temps were sitting in the mid 70's.
Today i cut a whole in the wood and placed my heat lamp through it.
I made an error in that i did not have and metal mesh to cover the whole with (So that the snake did not come in direct contact with the ceramic heater.
So I ended up wrapping the heater in aluminum foil, and poiking holes in it.
Is this safe? Will the Aluminium foil give off any poisonous fumes?
I am picking up mesh tommorow, but the is my temporary solution