heating in the winter

[mkniefel]

Hey guys!!

alrighty so i got a juvenile bp a few months ago and he has been doing great!! a question i have though.. as it gets closer to winter i am worried about keeping his "cool" side cool and not letting it get too cold. during the day in the winter the heat is off in my house and can often drop to about 40 degrees so i was wondering if having a heating pad on the cool side set to about 85 degrees would be sufficient along with the heating pad on the warm side to keep the tank warm enough. i do not have any heating lamps or lights warming the tank as of now. please let me know if this will be adequate to keep him comfortable during the winter months!

thanks!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

There are 2 options during the winter:

1/ for people with many animals a oil filled heater with a t-stat

2/ for people with 1 or 2 animals a second heat mat with a second thermostat.

[mkniefel]

also, my current heating pad is hooked up to a thermostat and if i were to get another heating pad it to would be hooked up to a thermostat.

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since i only have one bp i dont think an oil heater is necessary haha but a second heat mat will be adequate??

[darthkevin]

Yeah that would be ok with another completely separate thermostat.

[The Serpent Merchant]

Heat mats do NOT increase the air temperature in the tank. A heat lamp (preferably an infrared heat lamp will be required if the air temperatures in the room that the cage is in drops much below 75 degrees.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...t-Thermometers

[Marduk]

I recently ran into this problem when temps dropped around here. I just picked up an 8.5" dome, a 60w CHE, a reptilamp stand, and a hydrofarm thermostat. I've been keeping it at 77 for the past few days and it works really well. Humidity has bee mid 60s too.

[King's Royal Pythons]

Agreed with most everything above this post, but, by the time you get another UTH, or heat lamp, and another thermostat, you could have spent the same amount on an oil filled heater. Mine came from Lowe's or Home Depot (not sure which) for about $50, but it is able to maintain the temps in the room no matter if I have 2 Bp's or 20.
Just a thought.

[mkniefel]

i appreciate the advice of an oil filled heater but that just does not make sense for the basic setup i have. so it looks like a heat lamp is my best bet. any recommendations on the wattage/size i should look into?

[kitedemon]

The issue with oil heaters is operational cost. My place warmer than the op description ran 400 a month to heat (poorly insulated)

I use dual uth and a light system to hold ambient temps IR lamps are ok but I'd suggest either deep blue (out from the bp visual range) Che for efficiency. Personally I use a combo of fluorescent lights and deep blue led lights. And insulated PVC enclosures. I often am in the low 60s and I hold temps fine. I suspect however that as far below this as you have will overwhelm all of the above and some combo of enclosure additional direct heating as well as increased room temps will be needed.


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[mkniefel]

ok. and how do you control the temperate of the che? or does how hot it gets just depend on the wattage?