I just bought a 55gal aquarium off of craigslist for $35. I am planning on using it for my BP once he grows out of the 10gal I use for him now. It's really tall and narrow. I saw the plan someone on here made where you flip it on it's side and make a plexiglass hinged door, but then the top would be made of glass that doesn't work well with a heat lamp. My room is over the garage and has horrible insulation, so in winter and fall, it's freezing. A UTH is just not enough. Is there a way I could somehow make it so once it's flipped on it's side, it could have some kind of way for a heat lamp to work with it? Either build a screen top for it, or drill a hole for a wire to go through so a heat lamp could hang from the inside top? (Then I'd have to figure out how to make something to block it off from my snake so he can't burn himself). Any ideas? I'm pretty illiterate with building stuff, so the more simple, the better.
Or, should I just keep it tall and narrow, standing up the way it's supposed to go?