heat bulb or UTH for corn?

[latazyo]

sorry if this is a stupid question, but after reading the garter snake thread in the other forum and someone suggesting that garter snakes burrow to escape heat and realizing that corns also burrow, I was wondering if it is recommended to put corns on a UTH or to just use a piece of slate and a light bulb to heat up the slate for the snake to bask on

please offer any insight to this that you can

thanks in advance

[Optimus Prime]

It really depends on your set up and how many corns you got? For just one snake use both have the UTH under one side and have a bulb over it to make a hot end a cool end, That way your corn can thermoregulate. Then at night just turn off the light at night so that there is still heat. For me I use UTH all the time becuse my corns are in a rack system and it is very hard to use bulbs.

[sapphire_moon]

I use a UTH with a lamp dimmer to control the heat. And a lamp set far enough away that it can't up the temps since it is only for the daytime/nightime cycle.

[jjnnbns]

this is latazyo posting on jjnnbns's account

I used to use both the lamp and the UTH (on a dimmer) and the light raised the temp 20 degrees, it was 105 degrees which I know is way too hot...so I dumped the light...I am just going to use a fluorescent light for light and the UTH for heat...the reason I ask is because I'm making a new enclosure and was wondering about heat