Tub setup in room temperature room.

[8_Ball]

Hi all,

I've kept snakes in racks before in a heated room but I've seen many posts on here of people successfully keeping ball pythons in single tubs in a non-heated room. I got a 28 QT sterilite tub from Walmart and soldered some holes in it and attached a heat pad from Reptile Basics to it with a hydrofarm. My house is usually 72-73* but the tubs ambient is only reaching 75-76* ambient, hot spot is 92*. I think I may have made too many holes or I might get a 11x11 heat mat that is bigger and covers more space underneath. I love how I keep humidity perfect but I don't want to risk a RI. I cannot heat a room (live in an apartment) so any ideas or feed back will be useful


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[Stewart_Reptiles]

If your cool side is 75/76 you will be fine.

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[Skeletor]

Maybe put a towel on top to hold in some extra heat.

[PitOnTheProwl]

High 70s ambient should be fine.

[LittleTreeGuy]

From my experience, the holes will help with humidity adjustment, but they don't affect the heat too much in my setups. I was like you, but I wanted to raise the ambients just a tad for my own piece of mind, so I just got a little oil-filled radiator style heater and set it beside my rack. It's got a built in thermostat and it really doesn't run all that much, but my ambient temps are never below 78 now.