I don't have time for a long response right now but thank you for the responses.

Just wanted to say real quick that I thought the humidity needed to be higher than 30%. The humidity in a 55g without divider or foil treated screen top at my house right now is 35% on the hot side. If a mister is a waste and no good, then great. I didn't want to have to use them anyway. But I want to make sure humidity is perfect at all times.

I chose flexwatt because it can be cut down from 2' to whatever the length I need to have the proper warm side, cool side.

If flexiwatt can't help ambient temp, is there another UTH that can? Or do I have no choice but to use heat lamp?

The overhead lights I built for my planted tank has 4 bulbs. The front 2 are controlled separately from the back 2. Do heat bulbs only come in screw-in form?

I've only explained plans for heating here not anything else. Yes I am choosing to stick with the glass enclosure despite advice to use plastic tubs. But that doesn't mean I'm ignoring the needs of the snakes. I'm going to try to make this work but if at the end of the day I see that temps, humidity, etc, are not suitable, then I will ditch it all and go back to the drawing board.

I won't make my snakes stay in dangerous situations while I work on this, trust me. They are both being well taken care of now with good temps.

I just want to discuss heating and thermostats right now.

I haven't read the second response completely. I'll come back later.

Thx.
-T


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