Is this possible..

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The ceramic heat emitters are sold at places like PetCo, and I'm sure they have them at other pet places. Check the place where you buy your feeders. They replace the light bulb, so you still have to have the socket to screw them into.

Well, I looked at Petsmart after I got off the other day and it was like $40 for a 100w ceramic heater. Soo...I looked on amazon and bought a 60w ceramic heating bulb, and a porcelain clamp lamp from zoo med, all for about $30 total. I'm hoping they work correctly, but amazon's never done me wrong. I read somewhere that its not the best idea to put the ceramic bulbs into a standard socket, like a lamp since it gets extremely hot.

If your hot spot is between 90 and 94, having mid 70's on the cool end isn't terrible. To offset, what size UTH are you using on what size tank? You could get the next size up in UTH if it will still fit your tank.

Generally, the set up is to have the UTH on the hot spot, controlled with the thermostat or rheostat dimmer. Then the ceramic heater or infrared light bulb will be on the cool end. If it's a particularly tall tank, you can understand you'd be wasting a bit of heated air.

The only thing is that the humidity will suffer a bit and take more misting during the day. Ceramic heaters and light bulbs realy suck it out of the air.

But bottom line for me, I don't think it's terrible if your cool side is in the mid to high 70's if you have a snug warm spot for him; and I base this partially on the husbandry section of VPI's book and our own experience in a non heat controlled room. The cool side of our tubs remains right about in the mid 70's, and everyone is doing quite well.

Alrighty, good to know. I'm keeping everything at it's correct temperature now, and humidity as well, and I'm quite proud of my little setup, and my snake seems happy. I've got the heating pad over 1/3 of the tank as suggested, controlled by a dimmer and digitherm.

Now all that's left to tackle is it's first feeding, shedding, and figuring out a name.



Thanks for the help everyone, by the way.