Ok total noob when it comes to this topic and how things work. I'm probably going to ask a lot of stupidly obvious questions but I rather make sure I understand things. There is going to be a fair bit I'm asking, so thank you in advance for taking the time to read everything!

So questions!


1. How exactly do UTH/RHP's work? Specifically flexwatt and how is heat controlled. I'm guessing you can manually adjust the heat as needed? Or is it just a set thing? If so how do you lower/raise temps? What do you do when it's too hot or too cold?

2. Is having a single heat source enough? For example I plan to get either a T10 or T11 from Animal Plastics, will having the a single flexwatt be enough to keep the cage well heated?

3. For my AP cage setup I plan on using their divider temporarily. Half cage to start then full cage when my bp is fully grown. On this thread https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...With-Pictures!
it states dividers set ups should have the flexwatt on the center. However it was not specified if this was for a permanent or temp set up. If mine will be temporary would the flexwatt be on the center or the right side/where it's meant to be slotted in? Will there be enough space between the pad and the divided wall to provide the needed heat gradient?

4. Keying off of question 2, would it be better to have two heat sources? Such as having either both flexwatt AND rhp or two flexwatts? Would that help guarantee temps to be where they should be or would that be overkill and make things too hot.


Now the golden question:
Can I use two flexwatts? One on the cool side and one on the hot side as separate units?

Reason I ask is because someone suggested that you can have an option with your AP set up to have the belly heat run on both the ends, cool and hot, but hooked up to separate T-stats which could lesson the need for a light or CHE. Is this true? It's the first time I've heard about this but I've seen others commenting how they wish they had their AP's set up like that.

I admit I'm still confused and a lot of this is coming from not knowing how to control temperature from the heaters, but would that mess with the ambient/cool temperature at all? Or can you set temperature caps?

Thanks for reading! Sorry for my newbness!