Electricity

With heat lamps and UTHs, does owning a snake boost your electricity bill?

You betcha! My electric bill went up a little. But that's because I have 2 oil filled heaters in my room.

Around how much would it increase your bill per year?

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Originally Posted by NicolasWSOP

Around how much would it increase your bill per year?

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it would depend on how many snakes and if you had separate heat for that room

The room would be my bedroom, which is around 70/72 degrees. And I would only own one snake, but eventually I will probably own more hahah..

So for just one snake at 70/72, how much per year?

I heat my room to 82 degrees because I keep numerous animals. It's easier to keep stable temps and less stressful on my end worrying.

I think, and it'd be a guess, my electric bill went up anywhere from 240 a year to 480 a year. Between 20 and 40 a month. But that's also heating 8 cages with flexwatt on a thermostat.

Ok I think that's all the information I need... thank you everyone for your help!

For your set up it shouldn't go up more than 10-15 dollars per month.

my guess would be like 5-10 a month depending on your local rates

mine did a little but not that much i do know the ac stays on longer cause of the heat the lamps put out but i have them on tstats so there are off and on and off again