Pics of your set ups

[Finn0208]

I have my BP in a 40g....I am having trouble with heat and humidity not that fall is here and its a little cooler in my house. Could you please post some pics of your set ups, the different kinds of homes that you have for your snakes. I would like to get more ideas for my lil (3ft) man. I have heard a lot of stories with having a glass tank. Would like to see what other people use and how they are set up. Thanks for any input and pics you have.

[Coluber42]

Insulate three sides of the tank, leaving only the front clear, and maybe the bottom as well, depending on what it's sitting on; and cover most or all of the screen top with foil. You'll have better luck with that if you are using a main heat source that is entirely inside the enclosure - either a radiant heat panel or a ceramic heat emitter in a fixture with a good guard around it so the snake can't touch the bulb.

This is the 20 gallon tank setup I was using before I built the current one. It has foam wrapped around three sides and the bottom, a UTH, a 80-watt RHP for the ambient temp, and foil covering the screen top where the RHP didn't cover it already. It worked out great and kept nice even ambient temps even when the room it was in got down to 55°. When the weather got warmer and more humid, I just opened flaps in the foil which I could open and close as needed to control the humidity.



The lid mods for the RHP were kind of quick and kludgy, but I didn't bother to do anything nicer because I knew he'd be moving into something bigger soon enough. It worked just fine though, and wouldn't be hard to do a nicer job. The foam I wrapped around it is sort of cheesy too, but it was ready to hand and again, it wasn't going to be a forever home.

I recently built a new cage out of PVC with sliding doors. PVC insulates better than glass and you can screw stuff into it easily. But if you can insulate all sides of the glass except the front and limit the ventilation on the screen, the heat and humidity retention properties should come out comparable. Just keep in mind that anything you cover the screen with will need to be adjustable if the conditions in your house vary widely over the course of the year.

[Finn0208]

Thank you for the info

[redshepherd]

This is my male albino's last setup (before I moved him into a glass display tank, but I don't have much humidity problems here...)



In a 66 qt latch sterilite tub. A million times easier to maintain heat and humidity than a glass tank. When it really gets too chilly, I put a humidifier and a room heater for the entire snake room.

If you're having trouble, you can consider moving him to a tub setup like this over the cold/dry season.

You can also just post pics of your current setup to get advice?

[salt]

I used a glass exo-terra for a while which is basically a tank. Humidity wise I think it really depends on where you live whether you can make a glass tank work or not. Here is a shot of how I had mine set up for a while and it worked well for the couple years I used it. UTH on the left regulated by a thermostat, and a CHE on a dimmer over the other side to keep up ambient temperature.