uth and lighting??

Is the uth and the lighting suppose to be on the same side or oposite sides of the tank?? Can never get a good enough answer.. or does it even matter?

When I used tanks I placed the overhead heat closer to the UTH than the other end.
Your trying for a heat gradient with one end being warmer than the other so the snake can move from warm end to cool end to regulate it's body temperature.

You need to have a probed thermometer to read those temperatures, anything less won't cut it IMO.
The thermometer itself goes in the cool end to read that temperature and the probe snakes its way over to lay directly on the hot spot to read that temperature.

Your looking for 78-80 cool end, 86-87 warm end and 90 to 92 degrees directly on the hot spot.

X2 when I had tanks I do all the heat on one side. If too much heat is going out the top put a towel over the rest of the screen.

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Originally Posted by Homegrownscales

X2 when I had tanks I do all the heat on one side. If too much heat is going out the top put a towel over the rest of the screen.

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I use syran rap bc towel soaks up humidity.. and used tin foil also to reflect heat.. but I will switch the lighting tonite. So far I have 3 dig. Thermoneters to watch temps but I guess need anothr one.. thanks..

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Originally Posted by j.smith7823

Is the uth and the lighting suppose to be on the same side or oposite sides of the tank?? Can never get a good enough answer.. or does it even matter?

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Lighting, like UVB or Heat Lamp? UTH on either side, I also put a heat lamp on the same side as the UTH. But I have a dimmer switch on the Heat Lamp to regulate temperature on the hotside. And my coldside temps remain in the appropriate temp range.

If your hotside is appropriately heated your cool side will be perfect. The only thing I've seen is ambients being off with big tanks. If this is the case you may need another lamp for the middle.

I recommend ditching the light and just use a UTH. BP don't bask, they don't need a light as long as they have belly heat. You find it alot easier to control your humidity without it.

the problem now is that my bp wont go near the hot side.. the aspen is no higher than 90 over the uth. but he juss has no interest goin to the warm side...

If the aspen is 90 what is the ambient air temp.
I find they don't like 90+ ambient and will stay towards the cool end if it is that warm.

86-87 ambient temp and no more, it's directly on the hot spot that should be 90-92 degrees

I agree. 90s ambient is too warm.

It read 90 on the aspen and 884 no higher on cool side.. I ditched my 55 gallon and is usen one of my 30 gallon breeders.. so far sooo good.. I got both uth and infrared and day uvb lights on seperate dimmers.. doin alot of fine tuning..