Quote Originally Posted by Raven01 View Post
UTH's make poor primary heaters.
Where UTH's shine is in creating a stable hot spot or "basking" area(when regulated) that allow ectothermic creatures to maintain ideal body temps as need dictates.
I find my snakes in the warm hides shortly after feeding otherwise they are more likely to be found in the cool hide. I don't know if others have this same experience or not but, it demonstrates that sometimes the snake will want to be warmer that others.
That's really good info to have, and something that I think gets left out of the Beginner's Guides. It seems that there's a lot of focus on UTH's, not so much on overhead radiant heat.

I still need clarification, though. I've got one person saying that I should put the hot side sensor directly on top of the UTH. Considering that I've got a Thermostat coming that'll also be monitoring the UTH does everyone else agree with this? (Not that I'm doubting you, Martin. I just want to get a quorum so I know for sure that I'm doing it right.)