What is your source of heating?

I recently decided to remove the heat-lamp from Mr. Bojangles' tub, leaving only the UTH on one side, and I've noticed a vast improvement in my humidity, which is something I've been wrestling with for a short while now. I don't have to mist as often as I did before, which is great, and the humidity seems to stay quite constant. The only opening in the lid is on the opposite side of the UTH and waterbowl, which allows for the humidity to "cycle" through the length of the tub as opposed to just rising from its source (the waterbowl) and exiting the container directly above.

Anyway, I thought this would be a nice poll to have, so here goes.

I heat my snake rooms to 82-84 and use 3" flexwatt heat tape for all of my hot spots at 92-94.

-adam

Space heater in the room and heat cable in the rack.....

Used to use heat lamps only though, when I had glass tanks.

I heat my rooms as well with oil filled heaters to 83 and then use the right size flexwatt for the cage, rack or tank...

UTH for now of course with thermostates.As soon as i get some baby snake racks made i will be using 3'' heat tape from MGREPTILES of course;) .Hey matt do i get a discount for advertising :cool: .LOL

Herp room heated to 82 and various combintations of flexwatt for hotspots.

i use a UTH and if the room is cool or cold... i put our heating pad on top of the viv until the room warms up. ;) seems to be working just fine.

I use one of those rolling, locking underbed boxes as an enclosure. The cool side is heated with a 2ft section of 11" flexwatt and controlled at 84 on my Herpstat 2. The warm side is a 1ft piece of 11" flexwatt set at 95. wOOt for no temp fluctuations :) I wuvers my Herpstat.

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Originally Posted by joepythons

UTH for now of course with thermostates.As soon as i get some baby snake racks made i will be using 3'' heat tape from MGREPTILES of course;) .Hey matt do i get a discount for advertising :cool: .LOL

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SHHHH.. Keep it on the down low:)

My room is so cold that I have to use both a UTH and a light bulb. I use a red one to keep it on most of the day, but usually at night I can turn them off depending on the weather. I like UTHs because they provide good belly heat after a meal. :)

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Originally Posted by justcage

SHHHH.. Keep it on the down low:)

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No problem :D

Combination of Animal Plastics Belly Heat (Heat Cable) and Pro-Products Radiant Heat Panel.

well I am waiting on both my AP T3 cage and all my heating stuff coming from Matt. But I am going to be putting 11" flexwatt on half of the T3 cage on one side, then on the other side I am going to have a 150 watt ceramic heat bulb sitting in one of the two 8.5" screen cutouts on the top of the cage. I plan on keeping the flexwatt side at 82-85 degrees and then keeping the ceramic heat lamp side at 92-95 degrees... or should it be the opposite? I am getting 2 Johnson thermostats, one to control the flexwatt and one to control the ceramic heat bulb.

I was afraid that ONLY the flexwatt would NOT be enough to heat the cage properly because I keep my house pretty cool, between 62-65 degrees during the winter. (heating bills are too expensive, lol)

Now I am just concerned that by using the ceramic heat bulb I will NOT be able to keep my humidity levels up in the 60% range. My room humidity levels are between 35-45% during the winter and during the summer they are in the 45-60% range. I am also using "Aspen" shavings for substrate.

Then for lighting in the cage so I can see my little guy I choose to get a 8.5" bulb shade and will be putting a 30 watt compact (ciruclar) flourescent bulb in there. I hope these compact flourescent bulbs DON'T give off heat like a regular incadescent bulb does. I will be putting this bulb in the other 8.5" cutout OVER the flexwatt heated side, hopefully this will provide enough light to light up the entire cage well. I didn't want to put a tube flourescent light INSIDE the cage because I don't like electronics inside the snake cage, plus I would have to reach inside the cage to turn the light on and off.

any suggestions of what I should do different I am all ears! but that's what my heating setup is looking like so far anyways.

A radiant heat panel in the T3 would be a better option than the CHE's ... my personal preference ... I've gotten burns from CHE's in the past and hate those things ... plus a radiant heat panel will be a lot easier on the humidity than the CHE's.

Just a thought.

-adam

yeah what particular radiant heat panels are you talking about? and where do you put them in the cage?

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Originally Posted by squale

yeah what particular radiant heat panels are you talking about? and where do you put them in the cage?

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Pro-Heat radiant heat panels from Pro-Products ... www.pro-products.com

They mount inside the cage on the ceiling and are perfectly safe to the touch unlike CHE's and they don't dry out the air as much as bulbs or CHE's. Many moons ago before I housed my snakes in racks and kept other species of snakes, I used them exclusively and they were AWESOME!

-adam

Does the pro-products attach to an AP T3 cage or would I have to mount it in there somehow? Also, how much do they cost? Any info would be appreciated.

Rachel

I use CHE - I've always been used to them from keeping lizards. Our CHE has a wire box on it so snake can't get at the bulb itself and burn.

Humidity is always a thing though - I always have a humid hide and spray to keep the humidity levels as I want them.

I would have trouble keeping the ambient temp right (until I have my Herp Room :D ) without CHE.

I'm wondering whether it would be good to turn down CHE temp so it can emit the ambient heat and putting a mat on for the warm end.

Ya i also use a space heater for the room temp and a UTH for the hot side of the tank.

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Does the pro-products attach to an AP T3 cage or would I have to mount it in there somehow? Also, how much do they cost? Any info would be appreciated.

Rachel

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You have to drill it into the top of the cage. It's very easy to do. They vary in cost, for my T3, mine was $79.00. As I was directed by Adam some time ago, contact Pro-Products (Bob Pound) and give him the specs of the enclosure. He'll then recommend a panel for you.

Hope that helps.

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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Snake room is 82-85 degrees. Racks heated by flexwatt.

i dont use ne of them...should have put an "Other" category...i use light bulbs

thats the same as a heat lamp isnt it?

6 days later and I still haven't got the temps perfect! Ugh! So here is my story. I have a glass 20 L with slide out screen lid. I had two ceramic heat emitters, one 60 w and one 100 w. I broke the 60 w which was ok because it wasn't really doing much for the cause anyways. So I bought a 150 w. SO I had a 100 w for the cool side and a 150 for the hot side. Well, 150 w was over kill. I should add I also have an uth under the warm side. SO right now I have the 100w over the warm side and covered up the rest of the lid with aluminum foil. We (my fiance and I ) turn the AC off and on in our room so temps fluctuate. Just when I think I have it right (83 on cool side, 92 on warm side give or take a degree) we turn the ac on/off. So then I have to fiddle with the rheatstat again! I know this is stressing out the snake too. Plus with ceramic, I am misting all the time. I have put way more money into this than I planned (which is ok, I love my little guy even if he's scared to death of me right now). I really can't afford any new things right now. Any suggestions other than "Go to this website and buy this new gadget that will make your life easy!" If I had that money right now, I would...believe me. Also, sorry for resurrecting a slightly old thread but I read....a lot. Why start a new thread???SO basically, I have 2 ceramic fixtures, a 100w and 150w bulb, a uth, a rheastat, and a household full of things (ie aluminum foil)..SO you macgyvers, DO YOUR THING AND HELP ME!!!


Thanks either way guys and girls!

~Tiffany

2.0.0 dogs
0.2.0 ferrets
0.0.1 parrot
0.0.20 various freshwater fish
1.3.0 bettas
1.0.0 cbb normal ball python

flexwatt

my baby blood gets a UTH and my BP gets a heat lamp.

UTH only as its the only way for me to have any kind of humidity in the tank.

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6 days later and I still haven't got the temps perfect! Ugh! So here is my story. I have a glass 20 L with slide out screen lid. I had two ceramic heat emitters, one 60 w and one 100 w. I broke the 60 w which was ok because it wasn't really doing much for the cause anyways. So I bought a 150 w. SO I had a 100 w for the cool side and a 150 for the hot side. Well, 150 w was over kill. I should add I also have an uth under the warm side. SO right now I have the 100w over the warm side and covered up the rest of the lid with aluminum foil. We (my fiance and I ) turn the AC off and on in our room so temps fluctuate. Just when I think I have it right (83 on cool side, 92 on warm side give or take a degree) we turn the ac on/off. So then I have to fiddle with the rheatstat again! I know this is stressing out the snake too. Plus with ceramic, I am misting all the time. I have put way more money into this than I planned (which is ok, I love my little guy even if he's scared to death of me right now). I really can't afford any new things right now. Any suggestions other than "Go to this website and buy this new gadget that will make your life easy!" If I had that money right now, I would...believe me. Also, sorry for resurrecting a slightly old thread but I read....a lot. Why start a new thread???SO basically, I have 2 ceramic fixtures, a 100w and 150w bulb, a uth, a rheastat, and a household full of things (ie aluminum foil)..SO you macgyvers, DO YOUR THING AND HELP ME!!!


Thanks either way guys and girls!

~Tiffany

2.0.0 dogs
0.2.0 ferrets
0.0.1 parrot
0.0.20 various freshwater fish
1.3.0 bettas
1.0.0 cbb normal ball python

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insulate the glass on 3 sides and cover most of the top to keep the heat and humidity in, but you really need to get it in a room that doesnt change temps alot if your not going to get a thermostat. you will also want a digital humidity and temp gage.

flexwatt on racks for hot spot and snake room heated to 78*

heat tape for me. belly heat with some racks and back heat with others.

I have success in my rack using Zoomed UTHs on rheos. The temperatures never fluctuate, and the cool sides are 79 degrees with a combination of the heated air in the tub and the outside temp in the room of 75 degrees.. works fine for me, and I see no reason to spend more money and change things.

I have my reptile room heated to 80-82 degrees.

I use a ranco thermostat connected to 3" heat tape for their hot spot :).

Currently my heating source is my hot ass apartment that is a 2nd floor corner duplex that the sun beats down on all day.

lol

I sucks but I'm sure the snake loves it.

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Currently my heating source is my hot ass apartment that is a 2nd floor corner duplex that the sun beats down on all day.

lol

I sucks but I'm sure the snake loves it.

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Lol that was one of the reasons I liked my old apt, free heat. Everyone else hated coming over though, always complaining it was hot :P . Now Im gonna have to cover the top (have a glass tank). Or maybe I'll just switch to the tub way of life (even if they are freakin ugly).

I have pro-product radiant panels in my cages and heat rope in routed channels in my racks all running on Herpstats. Its not cheap but is the greatest investment you can make IMO.


Chuck

uth only

flexwatt on helix!:gj:

flex watt run by Helix's and Herpstat's on racks and reptile cages! :gj:

i have a under tank heater and a lamp but the lamp is more for a night and day cycle more than a heating emlement

I have a ceramic heater to heat the room in general, UTH for the hot side, and during the day a general heat lamp near the tubs.
In my room, I keep my colubrids, and have UTH's, and a night 15/25 watt heat light that is on 24/7 on each tank, and on one, a light just for having light.

Carol