Your preferred heat method?

I hear of so many people using different types of heat source just wanted to see what you use of these most popular heat methods?

Ambient/room

Heat panels

Ceramic bulbs

Under cage heat tape

Inside cage heat tape

Heat lamps

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Ambient for collection. Heat tape for quarantine.

I use undercage heattape, though thats because my two are in a rack system. If i was to buy them each a T10 id probably use a RHP...

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I use ceramics for all my boas


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Depends on the snakes... I have a variety so some are ambient, some ambient with UTH, Most are RHP and UTH...Some may say RHP and UTH are overkill but to me its a small added expense to help with digestion and provide ultimate heat...

I use infrared bulbs, and since I live in Chicago my house is at 74 in the winter and 76 in the summer. So ambient definitely plays into that.

I think it may depend on your set up (cage, viv or tub) and it's size. It much easier to Under cage heat tape (set at about 90-95F) with ambient room temps being in the 78-82 F range - if you are using them on medium-large sized vivs or tubs(up to 5'x2' or 55 gallon tub). These would be good for smaller pythons(including Dwarf/HD Burms, & Super dwarf retics) and most localities and sub-species of boa constrictors.

IR bulbs/ceramic bulbs and ambient room temps would be better for cages.

Larger vivs (6-10' long) would be better with RHP and ambient room temps. Most of your large constrictors over 10 feet(mainland Burms, & mainland and large half dwarf retics) will need these.

At least that is my personal opinion.

I'm using pro product heat panels as of now
Once I get a house we're they'll have their own room I'll go ambient temperature...

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I have AP enclosures for my snakes and use Pro Products RHP's controlled by Herpstat.

It's not a dedicated snake room as it's also my office so ambient temps have been a challenge (ie, I don't like running my furnace in the winter any higher than 65-70 tops, and during the summer I like the a/c around 70). I'm insulating the floor and ceiling space with R-30 unfaced fiberglass (unfaced in the attic as my roof joists are insulated) in the next week or so and that should help. Doing so will provide insulation to 4 of the rooms 6 sides leaving 2 walls uninsulated to other interior rooms. Hopefully I will not have to run the electric oil heater in that room this winter.

As you stated - having a dedicated room that is properly insulated and temp/humidity controlled would be ideal and this is my best attempt without building a room in the basement.

My corn snakes are ambient room temperature, usually around 77F. Everything else has Pro-products radiant heat panels set up on Johnson Controls thermostats. The ‘everything else’ is a Colombian redtail, a Colombian rainbow boa, ball pythons, and a Solomon Island ground boa.