Ambient temperature please help!

[gusanr14]

Hello,
I've been thinking of how to raise the ambient temperature of the tub.
I am going to order heat tape soon and will try to test out the temperature.
My room stays around 70~74 during winter and 75~77 during summer, little lower depending how hot the weather is.
So many people have told me that heat tape/pad aren't going to raise the ambient temperature, maybe couple degrees but my plan is to build 5 sided rack looking box with melamine wood and I am going to put my plastic tub in there. Basically, it is going to have one opening to prevent any heat loss possible. Do you guys think that heat tape might have more effect on ambient temperature if I use tub with lid plus the 5 sided wood rack? considering my room temperature? Tub is not a tall one, it is less than 10 inch.

I just wanted some advice. I am going to test it out but any of you guys have experience like this? I have thought of putting another heat tape on cool side with thermostat set to 80 degrees but again, heat tape doesn't effect ambient temperature so I don't even know if that will help. I do have a space heater, but I can't put this on all day long just for one snake tub. Calculated electricity bill and it is going to raise twice of what I am paying now.
Any suggestion? or do you think my set up could possibly keep heat in? Also though of putting blanket on it. Please help me

[Ashleigh91]

I have the same issue. I found just buying a heat lamp stand and a ceramic heat emitter on a dimmer works for me.

I have a heat pad set to 88F for the hot side, and I just keep the dimmer adjusted on the lamp to heat the ambient temps to 78-80F.

My apartment is pretty chilly usually - no thermostat control for us people! This works really well for me though.

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[gusanr14]

Well it does seem like a good idea but I have wooden storage built around and tub inside so I don't think heat lamp would help..

I have the same issue. I found just buying a heat lamp stand and a ceramic heat emitter on a dimmer works for me.

I have a heat pad set to 88F for the hot side, and I just keep the dimmer adjusted on the lamp to heat the ambient temps to 78-80F.

My apartment is pretty chilly usually - no thermostat control for us people! This works really well for me though.

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[Ashleigh91]

No it would have to be on surface for that method.

Generally heat mats do not affect air temps at all. So if you want to raise ambients within a rack the only thing really effective for that (in my experience) is having a space heater warming the area around the enclosure.



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[gusanr14]

Please give me some advice, or at least experience. I want to get my husbandry perfect before repticon.

[Ashleigh91]

Please give me some advice, or at least experience. I want to get my husbandry perfect before repticon.

My advice is a set up like above if you're only doing one. If you're dead set on a rack you'd have to use a space heater or something to warm the area.

Someone else may chime in, but options are pretty limited to raise ambient temps in a rack or a tub. The way I have pictured above gives me perfect temperatures.

A lot of people have a whole room they'll heat, or back in the day when I had a rack set up, I had the rack in the closet, heat tape on a thermostat for the hot spot and a space heater on a thermostat keeping the air temps in the closet at 80F. I didn't have the option of doing a room, so that's what worked for me.

Best of luck.

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[Reposado]

Heat tape works fine in an enclosed rack type set up with tubs as long as your room ambient temps stay above 68-70 degrees and you use appropriately sized heat tape.