Cannot get temps up

[OhhWatALoser]

I've been struggling in the cold winter to keep the temps in my room up.
Turning on a heat lamp only increases the ambient temps in the tanks of my snakes by a couple of degrees, and it's usually 60 degrees in my room without the space heater on.
If I turn my space heater on for more than a few minutes (which doesn't do much), then the circuit breaker for the upstairs electricity gets tripped, and I have to reset it.Clearly it is too much electricity being used upstairs, so it is a fire hazard.
The space heater is 1500 electric power units, I forgot what they are...volts? hertz? Sorry, I can't remember.

Watts is the word your looking for. What else is on the circuit? because for even a 15 amp breaker to trip (lowest allowed in a house) you still need 1800 around 1800 watts to trip the breaker, so you either have a faulty breaker or can that other 300+watts be moved onto another curcuit? also does the space heater have different power settings, most have a high, medium, and low. have you tired it on low or medium, it won't be using 1500 watts then.

Is there another option I can use to get the temps up that uses less of the electricity so it won't trip the circuit breaker?
I don't want to cause a fire, and I don't want to run the electric/heat bill through the roof. Do ceramic heat emitters work? Could I install those in the tank? I know those suck up humidity, but I was thinking that if those work, I could get a warm humidifier for my room and humidify the whole room. (It's better for my lungs, since I have asthma.)

Most heat per watt is going to be flexwatt, but since your house is 60 degrees, that may not be enough, tho in the right rack system I think it would be. so a CHE would be your next best bet, they produce more heat than light bulbs since light bulbs also produce light thus being wasted energy. you must have the CHE outside of the tank or risk your animal burning itself, those things get 400+ degrees, burn on contact.

Problem with the humidifier is that it may bring you to your original problem of tripping the breaker, a humidifier using a heating element to get water hot enough to turn it to vapor, they can use a good amount of electricity also. so it would be something to look into if you go that route.

I need help. I don't want my snakes to get sick. There has to be something that works, I'm just not thinking of it yet.
That's where usually you guys help, with the creative ideas.
Shellie

with just what you told me, I think your best option would be to get a couple uth, on on the bottom, one on the side, maybe one in the back also depending on how cold thing really are? make a warm corner thats 94 degrees, insult the sides that don't have uth on them to retain some heat on the cold side. see where that gets you. Never had to deal with house temps being that low. my girlfriend keeps this place at 70+

why is your mom against the racks so much? your 60 degree house temp make it really hard to get proper temps, a rack system would help a lot here.