My young Blood is outgrowing his tub and I don't know what to do.
I've had problems from day one keeping his temps steady at 80-82 F in the tub because my room temp is about 70-72. My Blood does not like flexwatt on the bottom of his tub, even if it is 80 or colder F he freaks out and tries frantically to get out.

Right now, his temps are steady only because the sides of his tub are wrapped in 4 inch flexwatt and there is a piece of 11 inch flex watt on the top of his tub. All of this is controlled with a thermostat set at 84 which heats his tub on the inside to about 81. He has never missed a meal since I've had him and is growing and shedding steadily.

The dilemma is how I am going to keep heating larger and larger enclosures efficiently without breaking the bank. I know when he is an adult I am going to custom make a cage because having anything shipped up to Alaska would be way too expensive.

I was thinking about just setting him up in a tank with mulch type bedding or newspaper with moss and a large water dish with a ceramic heat emitter to heat the ambient temps and blacking out 3 of the sides with some sort of insulating material, and tin foiling the top of the exposed screen.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I should do??

Thanks for any and all help!