I am getting ready to upgrade the enclosure for my 3.5-year-old BP.

PetCo is having a great sale right now & I was thinking about getting a 40 gallon breeder aquarium.

The plan was to lay it on its side so I can access it from the front. I figured I would block off most of the screen with plexi to retain heat, use a lower wattage bulb for lighting to keep the top glass from getting too hot, and use a substrate heater in the bottom.

The thing is, I've hard a hard time finding examples where other people have done this, so I was concerned that there might be a problem with this plan that I hadn't thought of.

Any advice?