Personal Heating preference

Belly Heat all the way for snakes. Gives a good hot-cool gradient in my rack. Ambient in room is ~80 and with my VE Stat set to 95 it gives a good 90 degree hotspot and maintains the proper gradient.

Most of mine have belly heat although I have some (5) under ceramic heat bulbs . Both methods work well ALTHOUGH keeping the humidity up using ceramics can be tiresome !!


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I prefer heat from above, as I feel it's more natural, makes heating the entire cage easier, and it's harder for the snake to cook themself. That being said, I mostly use belly heat for my pythons as I need to foil the lids to keep heat and humidity in.

I currently use both, I live in the Pacific Northwest in a small apartment and we like to economize on the heating bill.
The heatlamp I use to keep the ambient temperature at 80, I use an UTH on a thermostat for her hot-side. to maintain humidity in a glass tank I ended up covering the screen-top with a vinyl-backed fabric I had lying around. cut to size and taped on and works like a charm in addition to the coconut fiber substrate.
The added bonus is the heatlamp also helps heat my room, so we further save on heating. :P
I suspect in the summer I won't need the heatlamp, gets pretty warm in my room, ambient temps should be just right then.

So for me it is both, depending on the ambient temperature of my room ofc

I use red lights to boost the temps to where I want them. The house ambient is set warm, I like it that way, I think Im a little cold blooded. I have a 1800 gram 3 year old clown and another black pastel pin pushing 1650; also around 3. I think it’s working, lol.