Re: does anyone heat there snake room?
My snake room has its own electric heat and A/C. I keep it at 80 in the winter, and a few degrees higher in summer. Humidity is kept around 60%
Re: does anyone heat there snake room?
Currently we are buying a new house and with that said the plans have been coming out of the wood work. Nothing major will be done until my old house sells. The plan is to currently put them in the basement with some oil filled radiant heaters. Later two plans exist.
1. Build a seperate building aproximately 30 X 20 for a reptile house with a special housing in the upstairs that is insulated from the downstairs to make a rattery. The snake room would be kept at 80 degrees while the rat room would be allowed to go from 60 to 85 degrees. The snake section would be heated with an in the floor water/antifreeze type radiant heating/cooling system. The upstairs would be controlled with a heat pump and have exhaust fans in addition to an air purification system.
2. The house is begging for a third story which would allow the snake room to be only 15 X 30, but keep it in the house. A shed would be then built for the rattery only. Again it would use the same type of floor heating design, but cooling would have to be suplimented as third floors are notorious for lots of heat in the summer.
Re: does anyone heat there snake room?
We use oil filled radiator type heaters in the QT room and the main snake room to keep it at around 82-84. The rat room is at room temp in the summer and in the winter we might need to heat a section of it to keep the ASFs warm!