55 Gallon Tank How to Heat Test

[GiNGERFiSH]

i wont be responding to this thread anymore so talk amoungst yourselves. some of you have been helpful and others of you have added your two cents where it is not wanted nor needed. did any of you that decided to flame me for how i keep my animals even read my first post. i have SUCCESSFULLY owned and housed two of my four animals like this for YEARS. I do not house all of my animals like this and have two pastels, male and female, that are in separate tanks, and two normals, male and female, that I have decided to keep together. I am well aware of the risks and if I felt that there was concern as mentioned by a couple of you I would remove these two. I have enough space to separate them if that is what I wanted to do. My animals are not babies and have produced eggs for the past three years for me. So my results fly in the face of your judgement. Reading a book about "How to Keep A Ball Python" does not mean that you know everything. Mentioned also was "ask any major breeder" and if you actually did you would know that major breeders change the way they house, light, and heat there cages often and not always do so by "the book". So are they wrong according to what you read or some one told you was "the way it should be done"? Did you know there are major breeders that do not light cycle there animals? Did you know there are major breeders that do not use hide boxes? I am sure that is in "the book" too. I will say again that this thread was started because I have ONE large tank that is difficult to heat and I was wondering if any of the nice intelligent people that frequented this forum could all put there heads together and help me possibly think of some thing I had not already thought of. Instead I get flamed by a couple of people I do not even know about how I should and should not keep and raise my animals when that has NOTHING to do with this thread. Thanks to everyone that just answered the question posted.

WOW, if you have a temper like this then you need some meds. Please gawd take his snakes from him. Brian Barcyk "The best ball python breeders are ones that have a green thumb for it, not the scientists that read every thing out of the books"

[Ginevive]

Toss the tank and buy an inexpensive Sterilite or Iris tub. Much easier.. why put your snake and yourself through agony?

[Ginevive]

Toss the tank and buy an inexpensive Sterilite or Iris tub. Much easier.. why put your snake and yourself through agony?

Woah.. I re-read the thread. Multiple snakes together. Breeding while at the same time not even being able to provide steady temps.. and still having trouble doing that in the third year.. never mind. I rest my case and will now go off to help someone who will listen!
Great post Becky by the way, as usual.