Hey Everyone,

I know this topic has been discussed previously, but I wanted to get a consensus to see if people are successfully implicating this practice into their home collections. With my new oil heater I have been able to dial in ambient temps hovering around 80-82 degrees in my snake room. I checked temps in all parts of the room and it stays pretty consistent throughout. Im now seeing that with my ambient temps in the 82 deg range, rather than in the mid to high 70s as they were previously, all my snakes are using their hot spots far less often.

Im wondering if it is still really necessary to keep utilizing the UTHs providing hot spots, and just switch over to ambient temps only. I know that this technique is being used by experts as of now, but if I am able to keep the ambient temps up, why wouldn't it also work for me?

Let me know if anyone else has had success themselves doing this. The species I am currently keeping are boas, burms, retics, bps.