Heating question

I just acquired 2 melamine enclosures. They both have melamine floors with the only glass being in the front. The large one has a circle cut out of the top with screen for a lamp. The smaller one has a light fixture mounted inside of it. Would the best way to heat these be from heat lamps from above? I've thought about maybe suspending a plexiglass floor in the bottom so I could put an under tank heater and thermostat in. Would this be unnessessary? Would strickly heating from lamps at the top dry out my humidity?

Lamps are notorious for killing humidity. I'd try to cover those up and use either the UTH or a radiant heat panel.

For my wood cages, i have cut out a square on the ground, covered it with plexi glass and mounted the UTH on the outside section of plexi. Works great.


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yeah, I've decided to build a very shallow box that will fit as a second floor with a plexiglass surface for the UTH. I do think I'm going to still use the light fixture for a night-time bulb or black light. I just have to find or fabricate a mesh frame to go around it to keep my snake from burning himself on the bulb