Keeping Ambient Heat in Fall/Winter

Like the title says, I’m looking for ambient heating suggestions for the winter. Right now we’ve just been leaving the A/C off in the snake room, but I’m concerned about what is going to happen as the weather starts to cool.
Unfortunately, my boyfriend and I had a house fire in April (no one was in the home and ALL of our critters made it out, thankfully!) so the idea of a space heater makes us nervous.

Our snakes are currently in tubs, so would a 2nd heat made set on a lower temp on their cool sides be enough?
What have you all successfully done?


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I provide ambient heat in the winter for my snake rooms my setting up multiple 150W CHE's in fixtures distributed around the room attached to a proportional thermostat. If one emitter goes out: The others will increase their output to compensate. As the emitters are only 150W each and easily fixed in position and spread out: they do not provide the focused blast of a 2000+W space heater. Online pet supply stores will occasionally run sales on CHE's and you can get them fairly cheap. ($15-20 ea.)

I have no issues with low humidity-as most of the issues I've run into historically-stem from too much humidity.

Using this setup also makes things easy during a power outage as you can run a single power cord from each room straight to a generator plug.

I'm sure there are many to do it: I just find this the most convenient for my setup.

My snake room usually stays warm enough due to the RHP in each of the cages...in fact, it’s the warmest room in the house. Prior to the type of setup I have now, I used one of the radiator style space heates. They are oil filled and the one I had came with a tip-over safety feature that shut it off if the unit got knocked over. They are also safe around pets and kids because they don’t get too hot to touch.

I have a small chest freezer for f/t feeders in my snake room. The exhaust from it bumps up the ambient temp in that room quite a bit if I keep the door closed.

You can certainly add a second UTH or row of heat tape to tanks and tubs. I would put them on different thermostats and run them at 82-83*F or so, while leaving the regular hot side around 90*F.

Thanks for the suggestions! I’m sure it’ll take some experimentation


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How many enclosures do you have, how big is the room, and how cold does it get? Those are all considerations as far as what you'll need for additional heat sources. Just insulating the tubs could be enough, or you might need additional heat sources. In general it's probably cheaper to buy whatever heating equipment you need than to heat the entire room.