Night time heating

I have the lamp and under tank heater on right now. The bulb is 75 watt, and the UTH is zoo med's small size for tanks 10-15 gallons. (My tank is 10 gallons).

The temperature is at 86 degrees F right now. If I turn the lamp off for night time, will the UTH be enough to heat it? My substrate is also about 3 inches deep, and I know I need to take some out because it's pretty deep, but that will have to wait until tomorrow because I need to go home and the BP is living at my boyfriend's house until saturday. The substrate is eco earth coconut fiber if that makes any difference.

I really think the light should be off at night to make a night time setting for the snake (and my boyfriend :P ), but will the temperature drop too much?

Get an infra-red heat bulb. They give off much less visible light. And no a UTH will not be able to heat through 3" of Eco-Earth. If you reduce the thickness of the layer of substrate be sure that you have the UTH regulated by a thermostat or else your snake could get burns that could be life-threatening.

So I think that your boyfriend will just have to deal with the lamp tonight. One night won't kill either of them.

What kind of light is it? You can get bulbs that give off a red or purple light which doesn't disturb the snake.

What kind of bulb do you have in the lamp? Infared, white light, etc? Bright white lights are stressful to snakes, so if that's what you have and you need a light, I'd suggest switching. I have both a UTH and a light, since my BP girl is in a 40 gal. breeder. I usually use a 150W infared, but recently I switched to a 150W blacklight bulb, which looks really cool and has very low visible light. :)

There should be an overall of 80 and a hot spot of 90; it sounds like your tank has an overall of 86 degrees, it might mean that your UTH might be even hotter than 90, especially if you don't have a thermostat.

In a 10 gal you MIGHT not need anything other than the UTH, I'm not sure though.

You can use just a heat lamp or just a UTH but it depends on the room temperature, and in the case of the UTH how much substrate you have. But as I said before, a UTH needs to be regulated by a thermostat because they get far too hot (I've seen some hit 110+)

This is the bulb I have:
http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...ductId=2752644

Should I use a different day bulb?
Exactly what night bulb should I use, if the UTH isn't enough to heat it over night?

Do not use that bulb it is designed for reptiles that need much higher temperatures.

Use this bulb 24/7

http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...uctId=11147193

How are you measuring your temps and controlling the temps.

Should have a 88-90 warm side and 78-80 cool side temps that are constant 24/7

Would this bulb work? Any idea of it can be dimmed on a lamp dimmer?

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...s/df58312c.jpg