Better Way of Heating?

[BWyant]

20 gallon tank.

I've already got a heat-pad rated for 10-20 gallons. I dunno if I've just got too much substrate or what (probably about 3/5 of an inch), but it and the heat-lamp and the blacklight..... and the space-heater..... and the, no, no there's no more, thank God. Anyway, they're not really doing the job.

So, I've got my Hydrofarm on order. But I'm thinking, in the long run, would I be better off to just go ahead and get a second Hydrofarm and another heat-pad rated for 5-10 gallons and just slap it on the other side, then eliminate the space-heater and the heat-lamp all together? Surely I'd have less humidity issues that way too.

Thoughts? Part of the reason I'm having so much issue is that I live in a 40-foot RV unit, which has pretty thin walls. So, the temperature in there fluctuates when I'm at work. I'm thinking between two heat pads and two thermostats, I oughta' get a little closer to the 81-90 split, 55ish humidity and be able to keep the temperatures a little more stable rather than having them jump from 94 in the morning down to 83 at night and back and forth and just all kinds of mess.

[The Serpent Merchant]

If you are trying to increase air temperatures heat pads aren't the way to go. Due to the way they transfer heat very little gets transferred into the air.

Heat lamps are the best at increasing the air temperature of a cage, but they come at the cost of lowering humidity.

I would look into insulating the tank with foam board to try to keep it as constant as possible.