Questions about RHP and Grow lights in bioactive enclosure

[Kira8p]

Hey all, so I am converting a bookcase into bioactive enclosures for my BP's and have decided to go with RHPs and LED grow lights for each enclosure. I plan to mount each of these to the roof of each enclosure and my question is do I need to be concerned with my BPs burning themselves on either of these devices? If so what can I do to prevent it?

Any constructive feedback is welcomed.

[asplundii]

Neither RHPs nor LEDs will get hot enough to burn your animal

[gunkle]

Keep in mind the RHP from a lower enclosure will heat the floor of the enclosure above it. Especially if there is no air gap between enclosures. Remember heat rises. I had to create a 2 inch air gap between my two custom 3/4 inch thick enclosures because th RHP of the bottom one was heating through the top of the lower one and through the floor of the top one. Causing too much heat on the floor of the top one. That's about 1.5 inches of hardwood plywood it was heating through. With the floor being heated from below I couldn't run the RHP in the top one to maintain ambient temps without over heating that side. I hope this makes sense.