Need advice about heating a 4' wide tank

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If I heard a compelling argument, I would ditch my tank in a heartbeat.

While I have my doubts about this statement, here goes nothing...

Glass tanks are notoriously hard to maintain a proper temp gradient in without killing the humidity...and that's in a 20 gallon long. In a tall tank like a 75 gallon you have a better chance of successfully breeding female Desert ball pythons. Your snakes will not take advantage of that tank height, and the extra volume that you will have to heat and keep humid will create no end of problems. Something will always be out of balance.

To create the heat you need you will have to use some type of UTH on a thermostat. This is for the belly heat your snakes need. However, no matter what type of UTH you choose, it will not affect the ambient temp in the tank. Sooooo, you'll find yourself using heat lamps or a CHE to keep the proper ambient temp gradient. Both of which kill your humidity.

At this point you have decent temps and crap for humidity. Sooooo, you start trying to find a way to raise the humidity. You try bottle misting, covering part of the top of the tank, 17 different substrates, wet towels over the top, an automatic misting system and gawd knows what else. But the fundamental reality of it is that you are heating and humidifying TOO MUCH VOLUME in the tank.

But let's say you get the heat and humidity to balance out through some miracle of man and science...now it's time to clean the tank. The 75 GALLON TANK...the one that weighs slightly less than a 1972 Volkswagen SuperBeetle. You have to take everything out, completely scrub every silicone gooped nook and cranny...Then start the whole heat / humidity balancing process over again. And let's not forget that the primary passangers on this Heat & Humidity Roller Coaster that the cool kids call, "It's A Small RI After All", will be your snakes.

And, in the end, when it’s all said and done, your ball pythons still won’t be display snakes, and would still have a much better chance of thriving in a simple RubberMade tub set-up from Target.

So, I've shown you mine, now show me yours. What is your compelling argument for putting your snakes in this inappropriate enclosure?