Heating

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Hi, I have trouble understanding how to heat the terrarium for my ball python. Originally I was using a heat mat and a ceramic heat emitter but since it only emits UVC its not the besy. Recently I did a bioactive tank for him. I have trouble knowing exactly where to measure the temperature for him. I am using a deap heat projector right now for him, to have different UV's. I read at some spots that the maximum i should measure in the tank is 95 because higher than that he could burn, I put the thermostat probe under the DHP wich is over his hide on the hot side. But inside his hide i measure colder than that and colder than 80 sometimes. On his cold side it is around 75 but at night I have seen 73. How could I help bring the ambiant temperature up ? I was thinking about adding a fan so that the heat under the DHP gets dissipated !

First, I understand that you stopped using the CHE and UTH and now you are only using a DHP. If that's correct, I'd add the CHE on the cool side and set the thermostat to maintain a temperature of 80 degrees. That's similar to what I do. I use a RHP for my basking spot and heat tape to keep the cool side from getting too cool. If that fails to raise the ambient enough, I'd try closing the vents to restrict airflow. Until you do that, I think a fan would blow the heat right out of your enclosure.