New snake setup

[pinkspore]

Ok, here is what my snake was living in before:


Here's the tank now:


I love naturalistic setups! The substrate is a pet store jungle bedding mix. There's a big ceramic dog bowl for water, two terra cotta pots lined with moss for hides, a branch decoration for climbing on, and loads of moss everywhere else to help keep the humidity up. I've got a digital thermometer/hygrometer in there, and currently heat is coming from a red bulb in a heat lamp. I'm still playing with under tank heating solutions, since I don't currently have a means of lifting the tank up away from the heater. Humidity is also something of a challnge at the moment, I may either make a humidifier or look into a dripper system if need be.

He/she is currently exploring thoroughly and enjoying a bit of burrowing.

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

WOW!!! I was gonna say when I first looked at the 1st pic that you need to redo it and add some more hides but when I scrolled down I was like "WOW!!" lol That looks really nice. I hope to be able to do a naturalistic cage eventually. Oh ya, A good way I have lifted a tank off the heat pad is to put a book under each side that are about the same thickness. It should life the tank up high enough but not too high so all the heat escapes

[JLC]

The new set-up is looking good!


One thing you could do to lift the tank is to get some little plastic, sticky "bubbles"...they usually come in sheets of various sizes and can be found at Wal Mart and places like that. Maybe in hardware, maybe in crafts. They're just little "feet" that you stick onto the bottom of the tank.

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

The new set-up is looking good!


One thing you could do to lift the tank is to get some little plastic, sticky "bubbles"...they usually come in sheets of various sizes and can be found at Wal Mart and places like that. Maybe in hardware, maybe in crafts. They're just little "feet" that you stick onto the bottom of the tank.

Oh ya, Some heating pads come with those

[pinkspore]

Thanks! I love setting up terrariums. I'm working out a water/terrestrial setup for red-eyed tree frogs right now.

I was going to ask if putting books under the tank would stress a glass aquarium, but then I remembered that this one doesn't have to withstand the weight of gallons of water...can you tell I'm used to doing aquatic/semi-aquatic setups?

What kind of undertank heating do you suggest? Cheap? Good?

[JLC]

Flexwatt (ordered off the Internet) is probably the least expensive AND the best way to go. (Not a combination usually found!)


Zoomed and Exoterra brand UTH's are usually good enough...more expensive, but can be found locally at your pet store.

Regardless of which one of those you choose to go with, you MUST get something to control the amount of heat it puts out. Either can get dangerously hot. Best option is to get a thermostat. (Lots of options out there, but in this case, you usually "get what you pay for.") If you can't afford a good t-stat, then at least get a rheostat (lamp dimmer switch) from the hardware store. You can find those at the hardware store for around $15 or less...you just have to monitor the temps closely because you're manually adjusting how much heat the pad puts out. If the temps in your room fluctuate a lot, you're way better off going with a t-stat.

[sweety314]

Cool looking tank!


Have four of 'em and since Oreo's is sitting on my handmade hope chest and I don't want to crack the wood from the UTH heat, I went to Bi-Mart (but Wal-Mart is the nation-wide equivalent) and got the plastic (or rubber) cane tips or depending on the size U want the felt pieces that go on the bottom of chair feet. On my tubs I glue two pieces of the felt together, then cement the little sandwich to the bottoms of the tubs. My tanks have different sized plastic and rubber tips glued on them, depending on how big the tank and the snake.

Once I get a camera, I'll post some pics.

Maybe that will help with some ideas.

As for the UTH, Flexwatt and aluminum tape is really good, but a couple of the tanks I was given already had the Ecto-Therm reptile UTHs attached. They're not bad, but on one of my tanks, it's the wrong size, and so the hot spot runs down the back LENGTH of the tank instead of at one end. (The tank is a 30g breeder size.) The other one I like the best is the one that is made in Scotland, the Ultratherm pad. They're just not quite as flexible (for like the outside of tubs) but for outside bottom of tanks, they're great!

RuLyn