Question on heating multiple cages

I used to use Vision V221 cages before I got my rack. I used to use 1 sheet of flexwatt per cage along the back and ran them into a surge protector and then into a Herpstat. But my cages were 12 inches high so the heat on top from the cage above really didn't affect me negatively. Boaphiles look pretty cool, and don't have sliding glass fronts which my males were letting themselves out during breeding season until I bought display locks. Good luck.

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Originally Posted by jason79

That is how I set up my cages it works great. You can see pics of my cages on my Iherp link.

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i see how you have your tubs stacked, but they're stacked in a rack. i think what myself and the originator of this thread are referring to is, is it possible to stack the cages/tubs on top of each other as if you were stacking boxes.

and would the heat from the above uth have any affect whatsoever on the bottom cage/tub. if so what are the repercussions of doing so.

i on the other hand wanted to see if it would be alright to stack tubs in the manner that my diagram illustrates because i wanted to cut back on space by stacking them and eliminate the use of a space heater by using the uth from the tub above to heat the cool side of the lower tubs.

http://i49.tinypic.com/23kcky9.jpg

Yes I am referring to the drawing. They are not tubs its a 4 level cage and I'm using 11" flex watt for belly heat and a CHE in the middle of each for ambient temps. The hot spot in all four is 92 - 93 and ambient is 80 - 82 works great. I use 1 herpstat II to control temps one probe on the flex watt and one on the back wall for ambient I set both probes in the bottom cage and the top cages do get a little hotter so I use dimmers to regulate them to the same temp.