Heating...Electric Bill.

Do any of you see a drastic change in your electric bills from pre-snake ownership to snake ownership? I anticipate it to go up a bit, but I'm trying to figure how much.

Just wondering.

Thanks all.

If the rates would stop going up, I wouldn't notice much difference in the electric bills. :frustrate I can't tell you how much exactly, but it's slight.

We were just talking about this not 5 mins ago. Yes, I do. We went from just having Thor, to having Isis. Not really a big change there, but now with Casper, Loki and Baulder to care for, our power consumption is much higher. Any suggestions?

I did not notice a HUGE difference until I got my sun loving lizards. (bd's and mail uro) Since having the sun loving lizards, I have seen roughly a $30 to $50 (tops) a month jump in my electric during the summer months, and I cant tell you how much during the winter yet, as this will be our first winter in our new house, but in the old place, my electric was an extra $30-$40 on top of the $30-$50 already paid in the summer time.

When it was only the 4 snakes, it was about 1/4 of what it is now a month.

I really dont know that there is much you can do to save on your electric bill when you have reptiles requiring heat sources.

My electric bill was $45 in the winter and about $75 in the summer.
Then I found the wonderfull world of bp's & salt water fish tanks

My little collection
bp's
2.2 norm.
1.1 albino
0.1 spider

Boas
0.1 norm
1.0 albino
1.0 ghost

3 150g saltwater tanks
2 100 oscar tanks

Now my bill $175-$200 I have had the cops here twice because of the spike in electric they thought. I was growing weed! LOL

i haven't noticed a big change, i keep a 10x10 room heated to approx. 82deg. year round and the racks are heated with heat tape at 10 watts per ft. my bill is around 150-160 a month, the whole house is electric 4br and i keep my house at 74 deg.


vaughn

My mom said our bill was between 200- 300 dollars and we only have one snake. Somethin not right there.

Ahh the price we pay for our animals, yeah I saw about a 25-45 price increase, but once I created my reptile room I noticed a 10-15 drop again. With all the heating going on the room stays at 80-81* instead of the 75 my wife keeps the rest of the house at so stuffs not having to run non stop to maintain temps.

My bill didn't change to much until I expanded to the current number of snakes and scorpions I currently have. My gas bill will probably "blow up" when I turn the heat on this fall.