Quote Originally Posted by beandog View Post
This is where I'm also confused ... sorry ...

If I got rid of the heat lamp, and setup another UTH to a lower degree on the right side, then how do you get the ambient temperature up? I thought you said that they're not designed to heat the air like that (or am I not understanding that right either).

Sorry for the confusion, just wanna make sure I do this right *and* understand why it works how it does.
My logic here was that the snake will be spending 99% of its time on the floor of the aquarium so you want to make sure temperatures are correct there. Sorry I wan't clear with this.

When talking about temperature control and reptiles, you're mostly only concerned with where the reptile spends the majority of its time. For ball pythons, that means on the floor. If it's green tree pythons, then it's on one side of the aerial perch or the other. Make more sense?