I currently have six ball pythons. Four are housed together in a terrarium(sp? sorry)(not advisable I know) and two in QT. I am going to split the four that are housed together soon. I plan on putting them 40qt sterilite tubs, here is the rub; I am wanting to use flexwatt tape instead of individual UTH. The room that they are in now stays pretty warm 70's most of the year, Is the three inch flexwatt heat tape going to be big enough to heat the tubs and I read where adult ball pythons are suppose to be housed in no less that 20-30 gallons full maturity. I also plan on using a thermastat on the tape..the question I have is..is it bad (health wise) to have temperatures constantly changing ( i.e set it to 92 it drops 3-4 degrees and then bumps back up to 92) and has anyone used the BAH-1000DC thermostat ( pro's con's) or is there a better choice/ price. I know there are a million different opinions to this subject. Thank you so much for any help





It would be niced to have them in tanks but $$$ and space will not allow for that at this time, I understand and have been researching this for weeks now and I am not sure if this is a good plan or not. Thank you