Thanks! Will look into your suggestions.

One other thought I had was that since I'm housing my tank in the basement which is usually at 64 degs year round is to some tile above the area where the UTH to help retain/distribute heat. I'm noticing my experimental tank (20 gal) screen top definately lets the heat out with two lights (red heat and white) along with a 10-20gal rated UTH, temps on the cold side are around 68.

But when I covered half of the screen with syrofoam as a test it seems to raise the cool side to 73-74. This shows I'll definately need to put some sort of covering most likely plexi glass over half to 2/3 of the tank and have some vent holes drilled in.

Another thought I had... wonder if its bold to attempt the following post on the 70 gal.

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77387

My thinking is I could have the advantage becusae in the post folks say the challege is heat and only limited to UTH but with my tank it already has holes all over it so many can be used as vents/or blocked off. Then have one of the 3 inch holes fitted with a ceremic like base for the heat lamp and have a slate tile or two over the UTH area. But I'm unsure how to fit some sort of guard over the lamp when its in the tank with the snake....

Thoughts?

Again thanks for reading my post.

David

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