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Just curious... how is everyone heating their snake enclosures? I have UTH's on my tanks and I'm looking for something better given that they only heat a small area.
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>>Just curious... how is everyone heating their snake enclosures? I have UTH's on my tanks and I'm looking for something better given that they only heat a small area.

UTH's are not the best if you're trying to provide significant heat to an enclosure, especially a larger terrarium in a cooler room.

For this situation radiant heat panels are the best way to go, IMO. Heat lamps with bulbs or ceramic heater emitters aren't bad either.
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Current snakes:

0.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

3.3 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

3.3 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)

for the aquairums i have converted to vivariums, i use a blacklight - mainly because my rats love climbing and i am afraid that an uth will not heat all the air in the cage as evenly.

for my wooden cages i use radiant heat panels.
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Sounds like your uth might be to small for the cage. You can use flexwatt or the radients heat panels for a big cage are your best bet...
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