Quick night time temp question from a new BP owner

[The Serpent Merchant]

For a consistent gradient you really should only have 1 heat source; that being the UTH. The rest of the gradient is by keeping the room at an appropriate temperature. My suggestion is to just suck it up and get a space heater or something to raise the room temperature. If you raise the room temp then your ambient goes up. You don't have to raise room temp all the way to your target ambient in the enclosure, as the being enclosed with a UTH will raise it a bit.

For reference I'm in the same boat as you: I just naturally feel hot all the time (especially when sleeping), but I deal with it and our house is always either heated or cooled to roughly 78-79 degrees, which keeps all our snake's ambient temps right where they should be, cause of the slight raise I mentioned.

I'm sorry but there is no reason to heat an entire room when using glass tanks... tubs yes but never for tanks. And only using a single heat source is not the way to generate a consistent heat gradient... using thermostats and however many heat sources that are required is.

using a UTH along with an infrared heat lamp is honestly the best way to heat a glass tank. set the UTH to create the basking temperature of 88-92 then use the heat lamp to maintain the air temperature between 78-82 degrees.