Uth

[ember]

Hello!

I am going to our local rep/herp pet store today... I am planning on replacing the heat/light lamp in Kaa's tank with a UTH (upon suggestions of other ball owners).

What are y'alls recommendations on UTHs?

Thanks!

[tmlowe5704]

I was happy with my exo-terras before switching to flexwatt

[bigballs]

heat pads will create a warm surface area but ambient temps will still need to be created by another source of heat.

[ember]

Cool. What do you suggest?

[sweety314]

keep the room/closet warm for the ambient (if you can afford an 80*+ room) or a CHE/lamp. But if you use those, you'll need to watch and up the humidity. Heat lamps and CHEs dry the air terribly!


I have a tank that has heat cable that is 85 to 93 but my bedroom is usu. at 78-80* b/c of the six snakes in there. I'm not using lamps right now b/c of the humidity problems. I might go back to them, just so I can decrease the bedroom temp for ME when I have to sleep days.

My other tanks and tubs are all on either flexwatts, exo-terras or the ones made in Scotland (dangit! I can never remember the brand name! ) with thermostats/dimmers. The only one that has a lamp and a UTH is Oreo, the little Kenyan sand boa.

[ember]

Well, Kaa is in the bedroom, and we keep our house hot... usually 80... and the bedroom stays hot like that all of the time. Guests hate it, we love it

I took the light off today and did the UTH. I covered 3/4ths of the mesh lid with thick plastic wrap. The substrate (coconut fiber - bed-a-beast style, compacted tightly) is very moist, and the humidity is doing good. I now have two hides, one on the warm end, one on the cool... so far so good on the humidity, and I am waiting to see how the UTH does for heat to decide if I need another source.