Custom pvc/veranda terrarium I built

[Joelgriz8124]

Ugly as sin!!












J/k. Looks good. I have one question though, why did you put a strip of heat tape on the back and not run it on the floor? I've run heat tape on the side of my GTP cage and it warmed it up but didnt give a very good gradient. Also running heat tape between the cages can give you a double benefit in that it provides a warm spot on the upper cage and will kind of heat the air in the lower cage above the lower cages hot spot.

Also a bit of advice, if you ever use the bottom cage for a snake, throw down a sheet of 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch plywood. Cages on the floor tend to get the heat sapped right out of them. At least that is what Bob from Pro Products told me when we were talking.

Otherwise, nice looking set up.

Oh forgot to add, if you cover the heat tape with foil tape, it will help focus the heat more towards the cage and not allow as much to just escape out the other side.

Thanks for the compliments each cage hase a 40 gallon under tank heater in the hot spot covered by a piece of 1/4 inch plexi glass so the snakes aren’t directly on it . Here’s also a probe for the herpstat2 on top of the plexi so it dosnt get too hot . I just put the 12” flexwatt on the cool side because it wasn’t getting above 70 and I wanted to bring it up to 80-85. As far as covering the whole felxwat lt in the aluminum tape , I saw a video on YouTube that made me believe I wasn’t supposed to go over the edge of plastic on the sides. Here was a dotted line I basically followed ..... I but after the heat tape the ambient temp is right around 80 degrees . Thanks for the tips and good to know about the bottom tank I appreciate the help