Quote Originally Posted by mpkeelee View Post
with just a UTH its hard to heat an entire glass tank. just make sure the UTH is only getting as hot as 92. for ambient temps you can always tape off the enitre lid of the tank and cut a hole to leave the light on. then just get a rheostat/dimmer and you can leave the light on all the time if you want. the only problem then is that you are going to drain your humidity, which is why a lot of people hate tanks and eventually switch to something else
I haven't had any issues yet with the humidity, the Eco Earth I use works well. I also have about half of the cover sealed off with a cut piece of heavy duty boating plastic. I just wanted to know if the watts affect the heat, and what watt I should get. I don't have a dimmer.