Thank you for the input, everyone!
I have a PVC enclosure that is 4 ft wide, 2 feet deep, and 18" tall, heated with an RHP. I unfortunately don't know if a UTH is possible with this set up because the bottom of the enclosure seems too thick for heating to pass through.
Thanks also for mentioning to push aside the substrate for UTH temperature measurements, I always made sure to do this with my old enclosure!
I attempted to increase the temperature so that it can be ~88F under the hide, but even when the top surface/inside ceiling of the hide is 94F, the bedding stays at around 85F. I think the hide is insulating the bedding from the heat so it can't easily get higher than 85F and I wasn't comfortable raising the temperature any higher because 94F is already too warm for a BP. The hides aren't very tall, so I think the ceiling would be touching his back a lot of the time.
When the top of the warm hide was showing 94F, the warm side ambient temperature was showing 89F. If I turn down the heating a bit so that the top of the hide is 87-88F, the ambient temperature is around 84F.
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