Critique my enclosure?

[Mephibosheth1]

2) Insulate your tank. I used the stuff below, I only put it on the bottom of the enclosure. With this same material, I also cut out a cardboard box that would fit perfectly on the cool side of the tank, then took two pieces of insulation on each side of the cut out, and tapped it with foil tape.

Did you put the insulation inside or outside the tank??

Just the bottom or the bottom and 3 sides??

And does your heat pad go between the insulation and the tank, or outside the insulation??

[martin82531]

I just put it on the bottom (outside of the enclosure). I was going to put it on the sides, but I started with just the bottom, after running with this setup for a coupe of days, I didn't see a need to do the sides as well.

If you look at the picture, I was running a ZooMed heat pad, this is the only place were I did not put the insulation.

[Mephibosheth1]

Theoretically you could put the heat pad under the insulation to help more of the heat go into the tank??

[martin82531]

Theoretically you could put the heat pad under the insulation to help more of the heat go into the tank??

I would think you would be ok do this, but keep in mind a UTH won't really do anything for the ambient temps. I went with the insulation from based on another members recommendation. In combination with putting the insulation on the bottom and the removable piece I made for the top, the temps seemed to be more stable. This particular setup at the time was for a boa that liked to burrow so I was trying to keep the surface temperatures throughout the bottom of the enclosure warmer, I didn't want the boa to get off the heat pad which was set to 90, the burrow on the cool side of the tank, and the surface temp drop to 70 for example. I'm currently not using my glass tank but if I were to get another ball I would use the same setup.