All about UTH

I just built a rack for my 22 snakes and I switched over to 4" heat tape and I have had no issues with a hot spot or humidity. Now when I had just my undertank heaters I had more issues with humidity being to low unless the water bowl was right on it. I love using heat tape so far but I've only had it for a couple weeks

Hi,

There are many ways to get the temps and humidity where you want them but there is also a lot that can be said for re-phrasing.

I'll put my alternative version in red inside your post to illustrate. :D

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Originally Posted by Cody John Steele

***Everybody has their own opinion's, and ways of doing things. So don't flame me, because most everybody on here uses UTH's***

I hate UTH's, they only raised my humidity with a rather large water bowl sitting on top on the uth, and the temp had to be turned up higher than it needed to be.

They solved the problem of my lamp leaching out the humidity and I was able to use a smaller waterbowl and ditch the fogger as a result. I did need to adjust my thermostat as with every new heater though

You pretty much have to have a thermostat, unless your room temps stays 100% level 24/7-365 day, otherwise you will find yourself adjusting your rheostat every time you walk in the room. Also, mine never really raised my ambient temps, and I had to use a lamp to raise them. So what's the point of even using the UTH?

As with every heat source you need to use a thermostat unless your room temps are extremely stable.

I'm sticking with my ceramic heat emitters, and my repti-foggers on timers to keep my humidity up.

But like I said..."To each is it's own". If you want to try a UTH, go ahead. I may have just had bad luck with my experience. :confused:

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But, as you correctly said, your current setup is working for you and the animal which is really the only thing that matters. :gj:

How you get there is really not that important.

dr del