Quote Originally Posted by SGB_74 View Post
i had the same problem a while back when i used tanks..but i made the switch to tubs..and since then everything has gone perfect..and to maintain my ambient temps..i moved my snakes to the garage since its the summer months; and their daytime ambient temps reach up to 88 degrees and drop at night to about 80 degrees...i've also read in a previous forum regarding cool side temps for tubs you can always place a heatlamp over the cool side to heat the ambient air..and i dont mean cut out a square on the tubs lid and place the heatlamp over the square with a piece of cutout steel..i mean you can go out and purchase a stand like the one below and have it suspend over ur tub setup and it should maintain its temps to at least 81 degrees on the cool side i know haha i had to do it before..i've also had the fear of it melting the plastic but its never happened to me when i did it..also i used a 75 watt bulb. and i'll tell you this..you dont lose humidity when using a heatlamp on a tub as you would when using a glass tank setup.
Just be really careful that you don't boil the snake alive using the heat lamp suspended over the tub. You have to check and triple check the temps inside the tub for the first few days. An inch or two closer or further away can make a big difference. One of my tubs got over 115 degrees in less than an hour because I had the lamp too close. Fortunately it was a test run so nothing was living in there, but it could have been a disaster.