Keeping the temp up

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I have found that since my wife like to keep the house at 64-66F that the 50W ceramic heat emitter plus the medium heat pad
on the side is not enough.
I had to use 1/8in thick plexi glass cut to cover 90% of the EXO terra and use a small heat pad stuck to a 1/4 thick ceramic tile
placed under the same side nearest the heat pad and heat emitter I did this so the heat pad is not in direct contact with the bottom glass
witch we all know is a big No-NO. I made sure to place the sensor for the controller near that corner but not in the
path of the ceramic heater so the temp doesn't get above 80F.

I put another temp probe above where the under tank heater is to make sure the temp doesn't get up above 80.
and the controller is doing its job well.

I know that this is a bit much but it works well.

Try Griff's solution first and see how that goes.

[Bedore]

Being in New England as well and due to my usually cooler room temperatures I added a ceramic heat emitter to mine. It easily reaches the desired temperature no problem. I also had issues with escaping humidity/heat so I closed off a portion of the top and while the heat emitter does tend to dry things out a bit, I usually mist once or twice a day and that keeps humidity easily in the 70-80% range. In the summer the air is pretty humid so I have to spray less, but with forced hot air it really dries the air out so I end up misting more but thats ok.