Rei's T10 finally came last week. I spent the past week building it and setting it up for her. Today I grabbed some photos.
Its heated with the 11inch flexwatt on the left(with a thin layer of substrate) and the 80w RHP on the right. It gets decently cold here so I decided to go with both heat sources to ensure temps were maintained regardless of the time of year. Both heat sources are hooked up to a Herpstat4. I added a sky-hide for her because I wanted to see if she might like it. Rei has always been quite outgoing and curious.
Ambient hovers right at 80F and the hotspot belly-heat gets 90-91F(checked with acu-rite thermometers and a temperature gun). I am discovering how easy it is to maintain temps and humidity in this cage. It was almost plug-in and play once I got the herpstat4 set. I also purchased some silicone craft mats to put under my UTH/flexwatt on each enclosure to help preserve heat. They were rated for up to 400F heat exposure so I'm confident they won't melt, especially with the herpstat keeping the temperatures under control. I found I was losing a lot of heat from the open-wire shelving, so that is what I've done to counteract that.
I have another one coming for my Carpet Python, a T12 in a couple months, more height since she is a semi-arboreal snake. Can't really wait to put that one together too. Overall still really happy with my purchase, and really satisfied with the time, effort and thought I've put into this.
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