Rack temps

[Ascended]

You can set heat tape up many different ways.

If it is one long piece only one tstat can be used.

If you have a piece for each level then each will need a tstat.

In my opinion a small difference on each level is fine. If my "hotspot" is between 83-86 I am happy. Hardly any of my snakes use their hotspot and being so I turned many of them off and will only use them during colder months...if then. None of my hotspots are set higher than 85 or to a temp that gives a 85 degree hotspot.

I see, I guess it depends on your local climate and if you have a thermal gradient and if you can achieve decent hot spots its ok.
Its cold here in the UK most of the time, so I get a bigger difference between the floor ant top rack. its harder to maintain a decent hot spot on all levels of a 10 level tub system for me here in the UK.
Hence my 3 thermostat system. (With the cold temperatures the floor is pretty cold and he variation is quite large from top to bottom.)

Your making me think about heating my whole snake room to closer to ideal temperatures. Or even just heating the snake room and not the racks.