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Would a undertank heater alone be able to keep the ambient air temperature in a cage around 80?Or do undertank heaters only raise the temperature on the floor of the cage?

thanks

I wouldn't use an undertank heater as these frogs burrow to escape the sun and its heat. If a frog becomes to hot and burrows onto the heating pad, then that would not exactly be very good for the frog. I would just stick with a heat lamp.
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Undertank heaters can also be wall-mounted, will moderately raise the air temp, and help to create a temp gradient.

Also, if they're wall-mounted, the pacs won't burrow and torch themselves... and, they'll locate themselves appropriately in the substrate close to, or away, from the heater depending on relative air-temp.

o yea never thought of that thanks.Question is I have another frog that has the heater on the bottom could i take it off or would it not work anymore?Its an exo-terra heating pad .

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Hrm.

I'm not sure the ExoTerra ones have either enough adheisive, or the right kind, to be reused if I remember correctly.

(I've dumped the documentation after all this time, and the backs of my tanks aren't entirely that accessible to check, sorry.)

The brand I've recc'd for moving here and there and reusability is the T-Rex "Cobra" mats. You have to supply your own double-sided tape for them to work, so that means it's easier to pull off and replace somewhere else.

The heater would work ok if you took it off, very carefully. I have removed exoterra heaters from one cage to another, with my ball pythons. You may need to buy some of that shiny, silvery heat-resistant metal tape though, to re-attach the heater to the new location it's needed.
I would not use UTHs with pacmans though. Light from above is the best way to heat them. Putting a heatpad on the side of a glass aquarium would probably not do much, since glass is a very poor insulator and the heat would probably end up on that small area of glass covered by the heater.
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