Hi all! I was hoping for somebody's two cents - I'm assembling my materials for my royal I'm getting in December! He's already a decent size (840g) so I'm not particularly comfortable keeping him on a UTH, due to a combination of his weight and worries about thermal blocking, and the fact that his viv is a wooden one, so the UTH would have to be in the viv with him, and I'm a worrier at the best of times without panicking about him getting burned!

As such, I'm going to be getting a lamp or CHE. I'm more keen on the CHE due to everything good I've heard about them, but I typically only see them used on glass-tank set ups where the lamp is high up out of the way on the mesh top - never in the viv (with a guard) like mine would be.

Is there a go-to way to use a CHE inside a viv, or is it something I should stay away from? And just use a lamp instead?

(His viv is 3 foot long and 1 1/2 foot tall, so I suppose my worries are about the heating element just being too close into his reach.)