how did you mount your radiant heat panel?

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Originally Posted by Pezz

Are you able to raise your house temps? Thats a decent short term solution. My uth failed recently if it wasn't for the herpstat i could have had huge issues. So i had to raise house temps to 79 and put a temporary ir bulb up. Rhp's i've seen for plastic and wood vivs but not glass tanks.

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I'm usually not home for 8 hours a day so I don't leave the heat on that high. I was considering maybe moving him to a smaller room with a space heater but I haven't managed to clear one out yet

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Originally Posted by Randall L Turner Jr

I used a handful of exo terras that I had glass cut to fit ontop instead of the screen tops. I then drilled holes through the glass and mounted rhp to them. They worked wonderfully, only reason I quit using them is everyone out grew their enclosures. You can do the same thing with a piece of wood cut to size as well.

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wow that's a great solution! I'll look into it for sure.

for those worried about my snake burning, a gracious cousin was able to pop over my house and unplug the UTH. Henry shan't burn today but he'll probably be quite cold :/

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Originally Posted by casedbhloe

for those worried about my snake burning, a gracious cousin was able to pop over my house and unplug the UTH. Henry shan't burn today but he'll probably be quite cold :/

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beeps handle cold temperatures a lot better than they handle hot temperatures. he'll be okay for the time being until you get everything squared away. :)

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Originally Posted by casedbhloe

I'm usually not home for 8 hours a day so I don't leave the heat on that high. I was considering maybe moving him to a smaller room with a space heater but I haven't managed to clear one out yet

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Space heaters are great but you'll want that regulate that as well. I'm gone almost ten hours a day for work, my gas bill isn't too high as my house is well insulated. Jacking house temps up isn't a permanent solution but does the trick when in a bind. Also a quick tip while on the subject heating the house up to 82 before a handling session will make your snake feel a little more comfortable.

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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr

beeps handle cold temperatures a lot better than they handle hot temperatures. he'll be okay for the time being until you get everything squared away. :)

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that's reassuring I thought the opposite! thermostat should be at my door saturday

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Originally Posted by Pezz

Space heaters are great but you'll want that regulate that as well. I'm gone almost ten hours a day for work, my gas bill isn't too high as my house is well insulated. Jacking house temps up isn't a permanent solution but does the trick when in a bind. Also a quick tip while on the subject heating the house up to 82 before a handling session will make your snake feel a little more comfortable.

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my house is really old with bad insulation haha. thats a good tip, thank you.

Yes, you can mount a radiant heat panel to the top of an Exo-Terra style enclosure, as we’ve got two running that way right now, and a screen top for an aquarium is really no different. what you need to do is spread the weight of the RHP out.

Two methods we used.

1. Replace the screws with small bolts, and put fender washers (big wide washers) between the nuts and the screen top.

2. screw through the screen top into a piece of wood a bit wider than the RHP. We used a chunk about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick from the stack of scrap.

One or both of these methods we used four fasteners instead of two, and we had to trim some plastic on the enclosure top with method 2 (which is why we used method 1 the second time). In both cases the RHP is at least half the size of the enclosure top, so it also limits heat loss like covering the top with foil. IIRC method 1 was done with the smallest size Reptile Basics RHP, method two with the second-smallest.

The smaller glass enclosure with an RHP currently houses one of my Kenyan Sand Boas; the larger houses my juvenile water python, who loves to soak (and also did so in her smaller baby tub), and who is on Eco-Earth. Both also have UTHs for hot spots, and all heat sources are controlled by thermostats.


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Originally Posted by casedbhloe

yikes. hopefully someone has a janky way they can get me hip to, I'm not ready to upgrade to pvc :(
I might have to explore other options like additional UTHs. I'm thinking of sticking one to the (cool) side of my tank that's where I'm having the most issues

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I have a Pro Panel ontop of my quarantine 33 long. It works fine with the other side covered with plexyglass to hold the heat . It's not air tight at all so there's definitely enough circulation My hot side steady at 91 and cool 78-80. The reptile basics RHP are not flat like the pro panels so I can't comment about those. My pro panel is 12" wide so it works perfect. Never bothered the screen or anything else. I would definitely go with the pro panel an extra $20 is nothing for top quality. Also there's no plastic smell when it heats up because pro panels are aluminum. It is all around a better product And safer.
(Also mine just sits on the screen and i remove it before i take the Zilla Screened lid off to clean or take snake out)


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PS- here are the thermometers we all use... Great deal right now for $13 on Amazon. I bought 4 extra to have on hand.
https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-00891.../dp/B001BO8CUE


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