Heating pads or Heating lamps?

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Originally Posted by joshy171

i dont breed so i dont know what babys would do if i didnt have heat on them.

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Nothing if it was 85 degrees, they'd be just fine :)

i voted for heating pad, but i do use both in the winter to keep ambient tumps up in my tubs. but the majority of the year i just use UTH's

I live in Chicago, heat lamps and moss in the hides. Works fine. Just my two cents.:)

Depends on what kind of enclosures you have and what your room temperature is. All my enclosures are PVC Animal Plastics and are heated by radient heat panels on a thermostat. I don't use UTHs or heat mats because they're unnecessary to me. I just keep my ambient temperatures at 80

Heating pad all the way.

Whatever works best. I can't imagine using just a lamp. On the other hand, I can't justify using only belly heat in a room that's under a certain temperature.

At a certain point you have to make a decision. You either a) Heat the room. Or b) use two heat sources. If you just have one Ball Python, a working setup would have overhead heat to control the ambient temperature, and belly heat to supply a hot spot.

I would say uth if I had to choose. I don't use either though... I use ambient temps for my snakes.