Yeah, at first the snake was staying well away from the heater, even though the air temp under it was about 80. That is when I placed my hand on the cage floor below the heater and realized my hand was heating up very quickly. So yes, it is misleading. The nice thing is the snakes can move around as needed and know what they need, how long they should bask, etc.



The nice thing about having a cage large enough and a substrate the snake can go under (like paper) or in (like soil) is that even if the RHP was on too much, the snake could get away and the ambient air temp won't get too high.



I would say the benefit of this heater is that it isn't heating the cage floor like a UTH does, and the snake can choose any amount of heat energy from high (directly under) to moderate (near the edge of the heat beam) to low (just outside the edge of the beam) to way outside the heated area. With a UTH, it is generally ON it or OFF it. Of course, they adjust by time spent on and part of body on it, so it still works.
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