For racks, do you need heat tape in each row?

[Shawnfireball]

As the topic says. do you need heat tape set up in every single row of a snake rack? Or is every other row fine?

[Kinra]

Some people do back heat instead of belly heat. I don't think you should do every other row if you are going with belly heat. You are going to have a huge variation in temps between the rows. My rack is made of melamine and there is no way it would ever transfer enough heat down to provide a correct hot spot.

[iCandiBallPythons]

If you are doing belly heat it needs to be every row, you can do it as one piece that runs from top to bottom or wire them individually.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Every other shelf means only every other snake will have a hot spot, therefore you need to have heat tape on every shelf.

Back heat is an option however there is more of a heat loss and I would only recommend it in a stable heated herp room.

[Abaddon91]

there is an exotic store that uses heat cord for a rack they have now the snake are very warm but he has the temp going really high but i would run the heat every row