my set up (it seems to be working) - house is COLD in winter :)

My house temps drop to about 60 degrees in winter time because we don't want to have a huge heating bill. Unfortunately that's hard on my snake. So, what I did was this:

1. heat mat under Cool side of tank keeps tank at about 81 on cool side. 2.Heat cord around sides and back of the tank to provide warmer air temps. 3. Heat mat under warm side of the tank 4. heat emitter on low brings warm side to 90-93. 5.sides and back of the tank plus 2/3 of top covered in cotton blankets to insulate. 6. Forest floor substrate with water added directly to substrate every 2 weeks or so when I can't seem to keep humidity close to 50% with daily misting.

Before I started doing this back in november, my snake had gone on yet another "hunger strike". Since then she's been eating weekly again- when she doesn't strike readily at the ft mouse I offer, I simply put it inside her favorite hide and it's gone when I check a few hours later.

Tank is a 30 gallon tank and I have 2 "flowerpot" hides, plus 2 log hides, half a "rough" textured log as a climbing branch, plus an artificial asparagus fern over everything to diffuse ambient light from the room :D

Oh, and she has a ceramic water dish about 6" diameter by 2" deep.

Anyone see any problems with this set up or have any suggestions for improvement?