Room Heat

Not sure where else to post this but considering I only have BPs, I figured I'd post here. Does anyone else have an issue with the temp of the room that their reptiles are kept in? I have to keep mine in my room and it's about 82 in my room while it's 76 outside my room. I love them to death but dang they make it hard to sleep

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How many do you have? Are they in cages or racks?
If the question is : is it possible the enclosures are bringing up the ambient room temperature? Yes. It's very possible. And depending on how many and the heating I would say likely.

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According to your signature line, you only have two snakes? Are they in tanks or PVC enclosures? I'm guessing tanks... if they were in pvc enclosures, you wouldn't notice that much of a difference, I don't think.

Not sure why people are saying to keep the ambient room temp at 82F, that's really hot. I keep my snake room in the mid 70s and the hot spot at 88F. They are doing great, all are eating every week, no problems at all. I think people keep repeating what they hear a million times on the internet without even trying anything else. My snakes are perfectly happy moving from the hot spot to the cool spot and soaking in the water, going wherever they please. I also keep my rats, mice, and African soft furs in the same room, all are breeding like crazy.

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Originally Posted by cchardwick

Not sure why people are saying to keep the ambient room temp at 82F, that's really hot. I keep my snake room in the mid 70s and the hot spot at 88F. They are doing great, all are eating every week, no problems at all. I think people keep repeating what they hear a million times on the internet without even trying anything else. My snakes are perfectly happy moving from the hot spot to the cool spot and soaking in the water, going wherever they please. I also keep my rats, mice, and African soft furs in the same room, all are breeding like crazy.

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First, who are you talking about? You're literally the first person to respond with anything regarding the temperature in this thread.

Second, 82°F is perfectly fine for ambient temperature. What corner of the internet did you hear that it wasn't and have you tried 82°F yourself? In the summer here in AZ when it's 110°F+ outside, it's everything the A/C can do to keep it in the upper 70s/low 80s inside without costing a fortune in electricity and my collection does very well.

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Originally Posted by Eric Alan

First, who are you talking about? You're literally the first person to respond with anything regarding the temperature in this thread.

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????? The first posting in this thread is about ambient temp and it sounds like he has snakes in his bedroom and is cranking the heat up to 82F, too hot to sleep. I think you can turn the temp of your bedroom down to 75F and get some sleep and the snakes will do just fine LOLOL.

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Originally Posted by cchardwick

????? The first posting in this thread is about ambient temp and it sounds like he has snakes in his bedroom and is cranking the heat up to 82F, too hot to sleep. I think you can turn the temp of your bedroom down to 75F and get some sleep and the snakes will do just fine LOLOL.

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the 76 temp is what the house thermostat is set at. The 82 inside the room is being caused by the reptile enclosures themselves. I don't believe it's a simple matter of turning down the heat in the room. Hence the reason why the OP appears to be looking for others who are in the same boat being a bit uncomfortable with their own sleeping arangements. I don't think this has to do with "is this OK for my snakes" at all.

I have two big 50 gallon terrariums. The snakes are fine in my opinion. They eat great and the Temps and humidity are good. I was just curious if anyone else had an issue with heat radiating out of their terrariums.

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I would imagine heating two 50 gallon tanks would definitely net you some heat loss and a lot warmer room. LOL. I'd say it's just your setup... I'm sure if anyone was using the same type of tanks in small room, it would get hot in there!

On the other hand, and I'm not expecting you to change your setups, that would be expensive... but let's say you had two T8's with an RHP in each enclosure, I don't think it would raise your ambient room temps more than a degree or two.


With those 50g, whatever heat source you are using (I'm guessing lights or che's?) You're pretty much just heating the room. That would suck. lol I feel for ya man!

Yeah I have a whole room and use an oil filled heater to bump the ambient to around 80 degrees.
Without it even when I was running all the racks at 93ish degrees belly heat the room temp stayed in the high 70s.

If your ambient temps are 76 why not just run an uth for a hot spot-I'm guessing you are using heat bulbs currently?

I have racks, stacks, an incubator, and a small chest freezer in my reptile room. That generates a lot of heat. In the winter I keep the house at 70*F but that room is 76-78*F with the door closed. This time of year I'm not running either the heat or A/C so I have a fan blowing cool air from the house into that room, otherwise it would end up in the mid-80's. Once the A/C starts kicking on that room will drop back to 78*F ambient.

Also depending on how big the room your home thermostat is and how small your the snakes are kept in and if your door is closed will have an affect on temp. Say your home thermostat is in a big wide open room and its set to 75 and the room your snakes are in is a normal sized bedroom, it will take longer for the bigger room the home thermostat is in to reach 75 then your bedroom. So the heater kicks on and is trying to heat the bigger room to 75 while the normal sized bedroom has already reached 75 it is still heating up more and more bc the bigger room the home thermostat is in hasn't yet reached 75 so when the bigger room finally reaches 75 the normal sized bedroom is over 75. It would be the same way with ac, it will take longer to cool a bigger area then a smaller area.

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Originally Posted by LittleTreeGuy

According to your signature line, you only have two snakes? Are they in tanks or PVC enclosures? I'm guessing tanks... if they were in pvc enclosures, you wouldn't notice that much of a difference, I don't think.

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Two big 50 Gallon glass tanks.