Quote Originally Posted by angllady2 View Post
Awww!

It's so good to hear from you and to know you and Kismet or bonding so well. What a fortunate little snake!

Congratulations on the tank find, I bet you had to re-arrange the office to make room for it didn't you? We warned you these guys were addicting!

With a tank that size, you probably want to consider 2 UTH, one for each side hot and cool. But I don't know, if your office is warm enough you might only need one. The biggest problem is going to be keep the humidity up in that cage, believe me I know, I had one that big. I'd suggest if you are a little bit handy, you can make one out of Plexiglas and screen that would help a lot.

Basically, we made a wooden frame around the top from 1" X 2"s. We carefully drilled holes in a piece of plexiglas that covered all but about 3" of the top of the tank, and then screwed the plexiglas to the frame. We used a piece of heavy duty window screen stapled to the frame to cover the last 3". Then we fitted the frame over the top of the tank. Does that make sense? It really helped our humidity levels, especially when combined with a big water dish. Just a thought.

Gale
I think I might be able to do that! That would probably help out a lot also, I could always just spraypaint the wooden frame to match the base so it would look nice. Isn't plexiglass pretty good about retaining heat also? Better than glass, anyway.