Good setup for a blood?

[Pale Rider 777]

I wouldn't ever use heat lamps with a T8, Flexwatt and/or a Radiant Heat Panel is the way to go.

You can run multiple cages off of a single thermostat but there is risk to it (only 1 heat source is being measured by the thermostat. This completely circumvents every safety feature on modern thermostats) I can say from experience that all of my T8 stacked are set to different temperatures to achieve the same 90 degree internal hot side temperature.

Ok so would the flexwatt only be enough? Do radiant heat panels affect ambient temps? And ok sounds like my best bet is a herpstat 2 then?