I don't know if this has been covered but with this setup you could go even cheaper and have it be just as effective such as instead of store bought hides , you can just go to home depot and go to the plant section and get the trays that you put pots in and cut out a section on the side , would probably cost you a dollar for each hide more or less, also news paper you can get for extremely cheap or even free. I'm not a fan of reptibark as it is dusty and could cause respritory problems and is also quite costly.
One thing I do with my newspaper is I cut them out in sections and run them through a paper shredder and make tons of it, its simple effective and next to free.
Also for people that don't have a whole lot of money like me , home made rheostats can be made for about 7-8 bucks each here is a link http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19168 from the corn snake forums on how to make one of these, DdotSpot also shows you how to make one with 2 sockets. I have had no problem with mine.
If this was already covered I apologize, I just don't feel like reading 12 pages of posts =P
Thanks
Brian
Last edited by bja86; 12-15-2008 at 09:32 PM.
Reason: forgot something
I'm just a brand new snake owner so please forgive me if you think these questions are stupid....lol. I'm just setting up 2 new tanks and they are about the same as your pics on page 1. I have a question though, when you put the aluminum foil on the bottom of the tank did put the UTH under the foil ( I didn't see the UTH attached on the foil pic) and what direction did you place the shiny side of the foil on the bottom of the tank (up or down)?
the two identical hides stuff is a myth. In the wild a python will never find two identical hides...lol. I have two completely different hides and Diablo uses them both!! But two hides are important. One on the hot side, and one on the cold side.
I think that in a sense I have four hides... two are identical and then I have the hollowed out log and the bush that it hides under.... Normally avoids the identical hides.