Quote Originally Posted by Haydenphoto View Post
I was reading some of your post ! Guys lets think about this back or belly heat will keep them at the temp you need if the room is 60 the stat will keep the tub where you need them at the hot end ! Room temps really don't matter from what your tub temps are ! The only difference from back to belly is you have to run your back heat about 10 degrees hotter then belly heat !
I'm having a hard time deciphering what you are trying to say. But I'll give it a whirl..........

If you are claiming that you can keep your room at 60 degrees and raise ambient temps upwards of 15 to 20 degrees with either belly or back heat - you are wrong.

I have back heat set to 95 degrees in a rack in our snake building. The hot spot gets to 90 degrees at the back of the tub. At the front, it is the ambient temp of the room (79 to 80 degrees). In other words, back heat does diddly squat for ambient temps.

My belly heat racks are set to 95 degrees and get to 91 to 92 degrees at the hot spot. The warm ambient end is about 83 degrees with the cool end the same exact temperature as the ambient in the room.