Quote Originally Posted by Kaorte View Post
You NEED something to regulate the heat or else your animal will get thermal burns. Especially if you are using a UTH. A UTH will get MUCH hotter then the acceptable range of temps. Plenty to slowly cook your snake.

You can still use a RHP with a screen top. You can mount them on the side of the glass.

The problem with CHEs is they get very hot and they kill humidity. You should know that cold climates generally have very low humidity making it even harder to keep humidity up in the tank. That is really my only concern when using them. Bad sheds are no picnic.
this is why my cage setup has to be dif from the norm lol to battle to humidity issue i put sphagnum moss in a plastic bowl and set it under his light.. i enclose about 90% of the cage top to keep the humidity in. if what your saying is correct then i would have to get a diamond drill bit to drill through my glass to mount the heat source.. lol im not using plastic for my snake atm bought this 150 dollar cage and by god its going to be used lol. sad i made a perfectly working cage for my moms gecko for 50 to 60


i see your point on the heating pad thing but in the long run its just going to cost not the 60 for it but probs 100 to 150 since it says i need to have a thermostat for it to reg its heat so it doesnt burn my snake..