please excuse my lack of knowledge... i am posting on behalf of my husband... and our ball python Scooby...

we live in a 2 bedroom condo and up until now the 2nd room has been "Scooby's room"... but with a new baby coming... he now has to share the room come April... My husband and I of course are not ones to give away animals on a whim or something along the fact of "omg im having a baby there cant be any pets"... so i ask you a few questions..

this summer we moved Scooby to a 40gal tank... hes a little over a foot long i want to say... and my husband takes care of him mostly... my job is mainly to check on him everyday and add water to his dish...

but the questions we are coming to now is heating... we have one heat lamp on the one side of his cage... and a couple of those sticky heat pads on the underneath of the cage on the same warm side... and right now we have the room temperature set in the mid 70s in the bedroom and keep the door shut... and his cage seems to stay warm enough....

his tank is in the high 70s to low 80s on the cool side (his fav side) and in the low 90s on his warm side... oh and his light is on a timer so its not always on.

well our dilemma is now that the baby will be sleeping in there it cant be that warm in the room... and the door will be open more often... so does anyone have any suggestions we can do to keep his cage area warm and not heat the whole room... other than the two items we have on there now...





i am open to any and all suggestions... my main concern is when we turn the room temp down we are afraid that the tank temp will drop too (we haven't tested this yet)... so i would like to prevent this as much as possible.

Thanks in advance