I live in the Philippines and have a 5-month old male BP I'm currently raising in a sweater box (20''x14"x6"). He's always been happy and healthy and has never refused his meals. His current enclosure is getting beat up and the BP's adventures outside his enclosure are getting too frequent so I'm thinking of building a secure wood/glass enclosure around 30"x16"x12".

The room where I keep the BP is pretty constant at 86 year-round. It may go up 4-5 degrees during the hottest summer days and may dip 4-5 degrees on the coolest nights but 86 degrees is pretty much the average.

The breeder I got my BP from has never needed any heat in his enclosures (hence no heat gradient) and I've never used one since I got my BP. With the new enclosure coming up, I'm wondering whether I should be a stickler and actually try to create a heat gradient in the new enclosure. How should I go about doing it?