Heating racks in basement

[LotsaBalls]

If you have open racks you can get blue backed foam panels from home depot and cut them to close the rack in. It will hold the heat. I have freedom breeders wich ate open racks but i keep my snake rooms heated at 85 degrees so it stabilizes the heat. Another thing to remember when setting up any rack with cypress its gonna take about 48 to 72 hrs for the tubs to stabilize sincebthe cypress is dense and damp.

Maybe I just need to let everything run for a little longer. I just started heating the room yesterday morning ish. I've been slowly increasing temps and didn't think it would take this long. I guess with the cement and mulch having to come from 60 deg basement temps it might take longer than I thought. I'll check when I get home and see where they are at.

[kitedemon]

It takes a long time to heat that much mass. Concrete walls may take a few days to warm up. I don't know if you have snakes in the rack yet but if you do you may find a cheap forced air heater may be a good temporary solution it will heat the air but not the room but a few min of warm air ever hour might be enough to kick it up a tad, until the oil heater has stabilized the room.

[LotsaBalls]

It takes a long time to heat that much mass. Concrete walls may take a few days to warm up. I don't know if you have snakes in the rack yet but if you do you may find a cheap forced air heater may be a good temporary solution it will heat the air but not the room but a few min of warm air ever hour might be enough to kick it up a tad, until the oil heater has stabilized the room.

Everyone is still in the old rack upstairs. I'm not moving anyone until I get everything stabilized.

[LotsaBalls]

Hot side readings up to 84 deg. Room temps up to 80.6 deg.

[jbean7916]

Hot side readings up to 84 deg. Room temps up to 80.6 deg.

Looks like you are getting there!

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[LotsaBalls]

Just checked this morning and everything had dropped a couple deg. I'm going to go to menards and look for a new heater.

[LotsaBalls]

Ok, I decided to buy some 1/2" foam insulation boards and cover the back sides and the back half of the top. I'll let that sit for a while and check again.

[LotsaBalls]

Well had to add another heater to bump the room temps up to 83. But everything is good now. I'm planning on having everyone moved in tonight.

[jbean7916]

Well had to add another heater to bump the room temps up to 83. But everything is good now. I'm planning on having everyone moved in tonight.

Glad you got it working!

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[Mike41793]

Sounds good. Glad you got it solved. The only thing I have to add is that you really dont need 1.5" of mulch in the tubs. That seems like alot lol. 0.5-1" of it is fine.