Room temps

[Dave79]

What do you all keep your room temps at? What type of racks do you use? Summer temps and winter temps? I just got a new house and am trying to tweak my temps. I'm using RBI Plastics racks. Thanks for any input.

[nevohraalnavnoj]

I use RBI plastics 32 quart, belly heat. I added extra holes in the tubs with a drill for airflow. I have 6 of them.

I use a ceramic heater, keep the room mid 70's. Some people like oil filled radiators, but with the RBI racks humidity is not a problem. When I get a couple ARS 30 slot CB70 racks, I will probably switch to an oil filled radiator.

Also, make sure you get a backup on/off thermostat. That 3" heat tape gets HOT and can cook your snakes and melt all your tubs. A backup is a must!

JonV

[Argentra]

Well, being poor I keep my apartment temps at 72 in winter and 82 in summer. My snakes are in everything from individual tubs, to tanks, to a 3 tub rack I made myself. The corns will soon be in a homemade wooden cage system, and the other BPs will have a second handmade rack. The new MBK will always live in the living room.

The BPs have a UTH on each side of their enclosures, on thermostats. In winter, I also run an oil-filled space heater in the room to help keep things stable.

[Shadera]

My racks are homemade melamine with flexwatt belly heat. Everything is in my basement, and it can get kinda cool down there, so I have a ceramic oscillating heater to bump the temps up to 75-80.

[bigballs]

i try to keep my room temps at 80-82 degrees. on warm days it may go up a couple degrees and never drops below 78 degrees at night.

[jknudson]

Room temps 80-82F with an oil filled heater on a Ranco Tstat.

Spring/Summer/Fall: RBI racks, hot side 95F, cool side 82-84.

Breeding season: Room temps 78-80F, Hot side 88F during , Cool side 78-80. I turn the heat tape of at 10PM and turn it back on at 9AM, so during that time the cage temps can drop to ambient room temperatures.