I've pretty much set up my T8 exactly as The Serpent Merchant has his set up, with the same equipment.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-With-Pictures!

Set it up and turned everything on almost 24 hours ago.

First, given that a lot of people are using the same gear, I am surprised that I have my herpstat set at 99, and the hide probe is showing 94.
Seems like everyone I've seen who has posted there setting is 102+ on the herpstat. Confirmed floor temp with IR gun, so I guess it's just weird.
I've have expected everyone to have almost the same settings with the same cage, heat tape, and herpstat.

My ambient temp is showing 76, which concerns me. I live in chicago, and currently its 70ish in my place, during the winter I let it drop to 65-66 at night, so it looks like not only is my heat not cutting it now, but it certainly won't be doing the job in the winter. Unfortunate, as I was hoping to use nothing but heat tape, and the florescent light.

So what are my options to raise the ambient another 10 degrees? Is a RHP what I should be looking to get? If so, would a 40 watt per side do the trick?

I got a herpstat 2 just in case I ran in to this problem. If I go with a RHP, where is the best place to mount the probe? I saw a suggestion to glue it to the RHP, or hang it off the RHP, or glue it on the floor under the RHP. I'd prefer less wires going around, so I'd probably want to mount it to the RHP. If I do so, is it trial and error to see what I need to set the herpstat at?

Thanks for any suggestions