Heating ambient temps?

[dannybgoode]

I recently purchased a Boa and was told a heat mat would be useless once she was of any size.

Too much muscle mass for a heat mat to be of any use and all the snake would do is bury down to it and have very localised heating to their bottom 1/3 and very little elsewhere leading to a) potential burns and b) digestive problems.

I have settled on a thermostatically controlled ceramic heat emitter which acts much more like the sun when raising the ambient temperature and heating the 'ground'.