What is your source of heating?

this is what i'm currently doing. i was having trouble keeping the air temp up... so i put another rubbermaid type of lid - a little smaller than the viv - inside the viv with a heating pad on it. then i covered the heating pad with a tea towel. this has really helped to get my temp up. (before i had the heating pad on the outside, sitting on the top of the viv but it wasn't keeping the temps high enough... this is working fine now.

finally... just in time for spring :weirdface

I use tanks for caging. I know many people despise them, but I have no troubles with it; my snakes are fat and healthy, and that is all that matters :) To heat them, I admit I am a bit primitive; I still have pet-store type UTHs attached to rheostats. But I haven't had any trouble with them, and they way they are, even if one of them were to malfunction the worst that would happen is, the pad would just go dead and my snake would have no belly heat for a few hours. I check them every morning and my temps never have fluctuated. I heat the house to 75 and the snakes are in the warmest part of the house.
All that said, I cannot wait to save enough up, to get flexwatt for all my tanks. :)

Well I will start by saying hello since I am a newb here. I have a large UTH, a 100w sun glo lamp during the day and a 75w heat glow lamp for the night. I finaly seem to have got it dialed in last night. Have to wait and see about today.

i use glass tanks for caging. on one side of the tank i have on the bottom of the outside a heating pad and on the inside the rock is on top of where the heating pad is. on top of the tank i have a 50 watt red-light centered in the middle.
the cages are always perfect temps.

well i used to use CHE's but me and my dad built a rack and now i use an 11 inch piece of flexwatt running along the back of the tubs. the flexwatt is hooked up to a thermostat thats taped to the center divide wall about half way up, set to about 95 degrees. the warm side in the tubs is 90-93. i have a space heater in my room to set to about 75.

I have an AP T-11 which I heat w/ heat cable hook to a Helix1000 and then two lights on top w/ 100 watt red bulbs on ESU t-stats.
But I just sent an email to found out more about the heat panels.

Thanks Adam !

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my hot spots at 92-94.

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That high?

I used to keep my hot spots the same way and dropped them recently to 89-91.

Should I raise them up again?

I would. 92-94 is good

I just use undertank heaters. I have my snakes in tanks, but the air in our house never goes below the right temp for their cool sides.
ADD ON: Woah, this is an OLD thread! Zoinks! :dead: :nirvana: :depressed

this heat wave!

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