Heated Reptile Rooms?

Hi guys, I wanted to ask if any of you heat your reptile rooms and if so, what kind of heater do you have and what kind of safety features does it have? I need to be able to heat my snake room but my dad is concerned to have a heater on all the time because he's worried of a fire hazard. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mine doesn't have an extra heater in it per se, but it does have a small chest freezer where I keep feeders so the exhaust from that keeps the room a few degrees warmer than the rest of the house.

I use multiple Ceramic Heat Emitters (matching wattage) in appropriate rated ceramic reflectors scattered through my snake rooms hooked up to pulse proportional thermostats. The CHE's are in positions where there is nothing flammable nearby or underneath and they are out of my way. I divide the CHE's between two proportional thermostats in case one of the thermostats fails. Due to fact that the pulse proportional thermostats don't run the CHEs at a constant rate-they last for many years before I need to replace them. Using this method: The higher the wattage and lower the number of CHE's: the greater the risk. The lower the wattage and the higher the number of CHE's: the lower the risk. :)

You need a oil filled heater with a reliable thermostat like this https://www.reptilebasics.com/thermostats/ve-hi-power/ (not the oil filled heater thermostat as those are not reliable and tend to go bad)

Been running this setup for 14 years without issue.

I have an oil filled heater plugged into a Lux thermostat. It has a 2 degree differential and it works great.

I use an oil filled with a digital thermostat set at 75

I use a small electric heater with thermostat control to boost my reptile room ambient temps. It's plugged into a surge protector but that's about it.

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Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

I use a small electric heater with thermostat control to boost my reptile room ambient temps. It's plugged into a surge protector but that's about it.

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^^^^ same here ^^^^

I also use an oil filled heater in my snake room.

Oil filled radiator, and this is important, the style with an analog dial. The digital ones notoriously fail. I keep mine on a thermostat and have the dial set scarcely higher than the thermostat temp. In the event that the thermostat should fail then the heater can’t get more than a couple degrees above my desired room temp


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Infrared heater with it owns thermostat. I keep their room at 80f

I guess it's probably different for those of you that have multiple snakes / breeding setups. For me, I keep my apartment (a lot smaller space than a house too :/) at 75*F in the spring, summer, and fall. Winter temps are no lower then 70*. With the AP cages' ability to hold heat I only need the UTH's for my leopard geckos (except in the rare cold snaps in the winter for boosting overnight temps) and a UTH+60 wat CHE for the ball python to keep everyone in their ranges.

Oil filled here too. In the summer it doesn't need to do much getting the Texas sun on two of the outer walls most of the day. I close the A/C vent....cause I keep the rest of house pretty cool, at night down right chilly for many people.

This is a great thread. Thank you to the original poster and those who’ve responded. I’m considering heating my room and it seems like oil heater on a thermostat is the recommendation. Any oil heater in particular or brand I should look at? Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Chris633

This is a great thread. Thank you to the original poster and those who’ve responded. I’m considering heating my room and it seems like oil heater on a thermostat is the recommendation. Any oil heater in particular or brand I should look at? Thanks!

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Something along these lines with the analog dials as the digital ones tend to break. I have this same one and have used it for 10yrs without issues
https://www.amazon.com/DeLonghi-TRH0...34840399&psc=1


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As a former firefighter and current Emt. The worse thing you can is plug a heater into surge protector! Same with a microwave! Other than that. Be careful with your che’s. Pretty much nothing to worry about!

Oh and clean your dryer vents out peeps! Ok I’m done. Lol

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Originally Posted by Igotsmallballs

As a former firefighter and current Emt. The worse thing you can is plug a heater into surge protector! Same with a microwave! Other than that. Be careful with your che’s. Pretty much nothing to worry about!

Oh and clean your dryer vents out peeps! Ok I’m done. Lol

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Slight tangent.... I thought that surge protectors were a good thing !?

The wife always tells me to use them using the hedge trimmer


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