I'm sure that would work, first year I had snakes, I was in a similar situation but it was my sons room, we kept it at 72 and had bely heat under the whole rack and it worked well for my bloods, balls, corns, and boas, son is now in collage so I heat the room to 80 and have moved all to larger rack and only flex watt on one side, what kind of enclosure are you using?