I spoke with Tracy Barker yesterday regarding the fire hazard with belly heat via Flexwatt and she said she does not provide belly heat for her ball pythons or boas except for ovulating females and just keeps the room at 81 degrees. She also said that her females do not hit the "wall" and believes they eat better not being kept so hot. You would be hard pressed to find anyone more knowledgeable than Tracy so I think I'm going to slowly ramp my belly heat down and then eliminate it. Wouldyi like to hear other thoughts on this.