Housing a bp in an aquarium on a decorative cabinet

[heatherhead42]

I know there's a sticky about using an aquarium to house a snake. What I'm wondering is what happens when you house one in an aquarium that is housed in a cabinet-style aquarium stand. Is there room under the aquarium for the UTH? Is it generally possible to lift the aquarium on feet to place the uth under it? Or is the aquarium somehow attached to the cabinet?

We have Sammy in a large sterilite container now, and it works great and will probably always be his winter home, as it's so easy to keep warm. But with summer on the way, we'd like to eventually move him to a display tank (I know, they're not exactly display snakes, but at least we can admire the artfully decorated tank, lol) downstairs. Our house stays around 80 in the summer, so we expect it to be reasonably easy to maintain temps inside the tank.

By the way, for anyone interested, he's now had two perfect sheds with us, and he's eating aggressively--the mouse doesn't even hit the ground before he's struck and wrapped himself around it. He snatches it right out of the tongs.

So, any thoughts on working with aquariums in cabinets would be great. Thanks! Oh, and links to previous discussions on this are quite welcome too--I did a search, but all I found was general information about aquariums.

Thanks, guys!

Heather

[AT6CL]

UTHs come with rubber "feet" that raise the tank about 1/4".

[heatherhead42]

Thanks, AT6CL! I just realized that I mis-spoke--we don't use a UTH, but rather flexwatt heat tape. And we do have feet under the tub he's in now--little wooden children's blocks, taped on with foil tape, lol. But what I'm wondering is whether when you put it on a decorative stand, if that affects your ability to use feet--I didn't know if the tank might be attached somehow to the cabinet in a way that makes using feet difficult.

Having typed all of that, I'm beginning to feel a bit like an idiot--I guess I could just drop by the aquarium store and look at the cabinets to see how it would work, and then I could leave all you fine people alone to answer important questions. LOL

Thanks, though!

[Sinsation]

I beleive most set ups like that the aqauriums lift up and are not attached to the wood. I was looking at a few recently and all of them werent attached to the wood. I hope that is what your trying to figure out as I havent had much coffee in the early hour.

[heatherhead42]

Thanks, Sinsation! You got it--even without the coffee! That is indeed exactly what I was wanting to know and too lazy to go to the fish store to find out, lol. Thank you!