If your only heat source will be heat mats/tape, you’ll want to keep the room at least 75F unless everything is well insulated, in my opinion anyway. If you use cages with radiant heat panels, you can better get away with room temperatures down to 70F. On really cold nights (low teens to 20’s), my snake room will drop to 70-72F but the panels keep the hot spot at 88-90F and keep the ambient temps on the cool end 78-80F. The panels run longer and more frequently when the temperatures are lower (on/off thermostat), but do a good job of maintaining temperatures.









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