Hot Temp for Blood

I have been looking into racks to expand my collection. I have a BP now but would like to add a morph and a blood or two. I have been looking at a four tub rack to house them. The issue I have is half the caresheets I read for bloods say they need a cooler hotspot, 85°, and the other half say 90°. I even read one that said 92°.

If I get a rack and set the flex watt to 90° will both the balls and bloods be happy?

I have an email into the builder to see if I can get the top two tubs on a plug for their tape and the bottom two on a separate plug for their tape. My thought is I could then have two separate temps in the upper and lower part of the rack. Well this work, is it necessary? I don't want to waste the money to get it customized if its not really needed. I also don't want to buy two racks, that is more than I need right now.

I dont give mine a hot spot at all

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

I dont give mine a hot spot at all

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X2, and my two are still in tubs since they're still young

So how do you heat them(lamp, uth,room heater)? What do you keep the temp at for them?

We generally keep ours between 80-82 degrees, 84 at the highest for ambient temps. All of our bloods & STPs are housed in racks from AP, with radiant side heat provided by heat tape, but it's not often that we turn on the heat tapes. In fact, we typically just use it for gravid females who need a basking spot. Here are pics & details of our setup. :)

That website had alot of great info. I wish I could set up racks like that but being in a two bed room apartment it is just not possible for me.

I dont know what Im gonna do. Seems like most everybody is keeping their bloods at a cooler temp. Its just frustrating to read caresheets that hardly ever agree with each other. Even the care sheets listed on this forum for balls and bloods list temps being the same for each.

I think I will go with the lower temps so I guess my ball/blood rack idea is out.

Some rack manufacturers offer rack systems with just a few levels. Would it be feasible to get a shorter stack for your bloods that you can control separately, and put the rack for your ball pythons on top of that? Just an idea. :)

I have been looking at alot of them. I found this one from Boaphile Plastics that I liked. It has dual flex watt strips and solid sides and back. Its $399 shipped and needs nothing but a t-stat. With my research it appeared that I could house the balls and bloods together which would be perfect in this rack. These also stack three high which as my collection grows it could grow. I am just not wanting to spend $800 bucks to house three snakes. I know I will eventually fill them both but that wont be in the near future. I would like to buy a house in the next year or so and I hope to have a snake room and then go crazy, but for now I am trying to scratch the itch without filling up my apartment and running off my fiance. The small size of the tub rack is what I was looking for.

I know the Animal Plastic stack cages are not badly priced but when you start to figure in heat, light, and other equipment needed the price starts to really get up there. That mixed with the amount of room they need just doesnt seem like the right choice for me right now.

I have a test in progress using a under bed storage box. Its small for a long adult blood being 31.5x17.7x6.7, but its one that I already had and its just to give me an idea. I have a single heat lamp on one end to see it this may be an option for a blood and get the Boaphile stack for some balls.

I've kept balls and younger bloods in the same racks with no problem... balls don't need as much heat as most people give them. Get your hotspot to read 85 or so and both species will be happy.