I have been trying to figure out the best way to heat my enclosure (I don't have the boa yet), and I have decided on belly heat via heat tape. For those of you who use heat tape, are you using two different strips, one for the hot side and one for cold? Or are you just using one large one that will keep it hot and letting the other side just be naturally cooler? I hope that makes sense...

Secondly, I understand the problem with overfeeding and having unhealthy snakes. My question is for the people who really slow grow their animals - do you have any other reasons to slow grow other than to keep it from getting overweight? Slow growing seems to be quite popular and I want to make sure that I know all the reasons why.