How to Best Use Back Heat with Belly Heat ?

[ballpythonsrock2]

I wish i could switch over to T8's and use RHP but since i have a rack already it would be to much money at this point. I just moved to a new house and i am learning all the nuances of keeping my temperatures. I cant afford to keep the house heated to what i want it to be, I am debating on weather i want to use a space heater to keep the rack room right temperature or if i should go with using more heat tape on the rack.

I think i can keep one room the temperature i need but keeping the entire house heated to the right temperature is expensive. I cant shell out for a new Tstat and heat tape to find out that it cant do what i need and have to go with a space heater and different type of tstat. Best option is heat tape i hope since i only have another month or so of cold weather.

It is expensive enough heating one room to 80-82 ( mine is small thank God) but a whole house is overkill and too expensive. I use a Honeywell space heater the round kind to heat my room to around 80-82. On real cold nights I have to plug up another kind to help. But most the time the one Honeywell does the job. They are pretty safe if done right. They stop if tipped over and I don't let it get close to anything. I bought mine at Walmart (but there are better digital thermostat one's, infra-red type) I don't have a rack but I have one plastic tub. I use 2 uth's with thermostats. One side keeps the bottom around 80 the other keeps the bottom around 90 but I still feel I need to have the room close to 80 .

The main thing is just be safe if using a room heater, or any kind of heater really.