Brooks Kingsnake strange digestion and behavior? (diarrhea and biting himself)

[bcr229]

With the DHP, I'm NOT sure how much heat that puts in the tank, or if it's just heating up the reptile, which is how they make it sound? So ask the sources who sell them, if no one here knows for sure. So far I've not heard of anyone using them, but maybe bcr229 does, as she brought it up?

I use a DHP for my carpet python. It's mounted so the heat lamp housing is about 10 inches above the plexiglass top of his enclosure. The IR radiation penetrates the plexi rather well, so it heats up his driftwood "jungle gym" under it quite nicely. Being a semi-arboreal critter, he likes to perch there while digesting, and the heat that radiates from the driftwood helps with the ambient temp in the enclosure. I think CHE's work the same way.