Quote Originally Posted by Animals As Leaders View Post
I'm going to have to disagree....

UTH's aren't really good enough to raise the ambient temps in a tank...They will help with basking temps, but really won't do too much for the air temp. I mean if your just off by a couple of degree then maybe, but if your room is like 68 degrees or lower, it won't be good enough.
There is a few things to also do like covering 95% of the lid so heat doesn't escape.
If you set the hot end UTH at 92-93 and the cool end uth to 85-88 then the ambient temp should raise sufficiently.
It is after all a 10 gal tank.