Enclosure size

I was wondering the same thing. My place gets pretty chilly in winter and was thinking I might need RHPs to get 4ft cages to 82-84 ambient air temps in winter. RHPs take up volume in the cage.. anyone know if RHPs are a burn hazard if a snake has extended contact with it?

I know some people like RHP's but I wasnt a fan of them with my animals

Flexwatt for bellies and oil filled heaters for room heating here

What do you do to keep them off of the flexwatt? I've heard it's dangerous to allow the animal to have direct contact with the flexwatt or uth.

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Originally Posted by deftones2015

What do you do to keep them off of the flexwatt? I've heard it's dangerous to allow the animal to have direct contact with the flexwatt or uth.

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I didn't think you were supposed to use uth with heavy bodied snakes like bloods?

I use a ceramic for my P. curtis :gj:

All my heat tape stays outside my cages, just underneath the left sides

Flexwatt is tried and true with herps and are just fine for Bloods

Ceramic heat emitters are humidity zappers and would certainly make my keeping of these snakes a lot more difficult.

So those who use a rack system, How big of tubs do you use?

I had AP's VE racks before I switched back to cages and they were plenty of room

Some people are also having luck in some Freedom Breeder racks as well as ARS racks.

I have an old freedom breeder rack and my bottom tubs are this size -

http://www.freedombreeder.com/reptil...-large-27.html

They don't have quite as much room as the 4' x 2' cages I'm using also, but a big positive is that they are much easier to clean since you can pull the tub out. I have a bad back and have issues trying to scrub farther back in the cages closest to the floor. They seem to be a sufficient size for some adult bloods, also.