PVC Owners - How Do You Heat?

[KMG]

I wondered about that as well. Or the top of hides getting too warm compared to temps inside the "hot hide".

Edit:
Out of curiosity, how tall are we talking? Wonder if the problems would be better or worse with lower (15"-ish) heights.

I just noticed the first time I said my cage sizes I said 4 x 2 x 18inchs, mine are actually 15 inches. I don't know why or how I hit 18. At 15 inches the rhp give me a great hotspot, they just don't give me the ambient temps I need on the other end of the cage.

I also have a 2ft x 2ft x 20inch cage for my GTP that has a RHP. The rhp did the same thing in this cage. It made the upper perches way to hot when you try to get the ambient temp within the ideal range.

In all of these I settled for using the oil heater for the ambient temps and just using the rhp for hotspots.

I also had another issue with them. I have three large cages stacked and when you start to raise the temp of the rhp they heat the floor of the cage above it. So this means the rhp in the cage heats the floor but the other rhp in the cage below also heats the floor. This made the temps hard to control and forced me to keep the rhp at a lower temp.

I also tried different hides and objects in the cages but when your housing a 5.5 ft and 30 pound Blood nothing stays in place and she does with her hide as she pleases.