So I finally broke down a couple of weeks ago and bought a hygrotherm along with a fogger. It works great. Keeping the humidity no lower than 80% all the time and temps within desirable range (in my case, 87 during the day, 80 at night). I was wondering, however, if it would be better to replace my infrared bulb with a ceramic heat emitter as my heat source.

I know I've asked a similar question to this already in the Vivarium section, but it has recently come to my attention that the bulb has one/two flaw: there is a bit of a delay in it turning on when the temp starts to drop below the desired setting, and it's life span will be shortened with it turning itself off and on 24/7. Would a heat emitter be more efficient than this?

Another option would probably be hooking up a side-mounted heat mat to the heating plug of the hygrotherm, but I've never had any real luck with mats like that and don't intend to try again.