Thanks for the welcome, and the help everyone! I'm still really unsure of what I want to do though. I've talked to a lot of people locally who say Ceramic Heat Emitters work just fine (they do NOT produce any light)....but if the snake needs belly heat to digest food, then I can see that being a problem. I really didn't want to go the UTH route :-\ I'll see what I can do as far as getting the tile up.

Oh, and question...RidinandReptiles what do you mean by an "apr" in my cage? Sorry for my ignorance but I'm really new at the snake world!