For New Enclosure

[MarkS]

1st, if you are trying to heat through wood with an unregulated UTH, it is never going to get through hot enough, or if it does then it's going to so hot that it's going to catch the wood on fire.

2nd, thermometer not thermostat. Thermostat is what you should have on your UTH, thermometer just tells you the temperature.

3rd, DON'T! You're just risking cannibalism of one for no gain except that you're cheap. Which is 50% of the source of your problems. The other half is that you don't listen to advice if it contradicts what you want to hear.

4th, If you can't afford to properly house what animals you have you shouldn't be getting more with the intent to make even more that you don't have housing for. You've had them together for a long time without them breeding, either the conditions are terrible for breeding (still possible) or they are the same sex. If you complete this project and it works then you now have a reasonably proper house for each one individually, not for three.

Ummm no, there are a few things I disagree with here. The ignition temperature of wood is quite variable depending on the type of wood and the moisture content, but even under ideal conditions wood won't catch on fire until the temperature is well over several hundred degrees. I've been successful in the past using an undertank heater to heat wooden cages, it just takes a lot longer for it to heat up.

Many people, myself included have very successfully housed multiple snakes together without any problems whatsoever, cannabalism in ball pythons is EXTREMELY rare. Why is it that everyone seems to use that as an example of why not to house animals together? I prefer not to house multiple snakes together myself, but it has NOTHING to do with cannabalism.