Plus glass dose not heat evenly it will get hot right over the heat source and be cool right beside it , you can best demonstrate this with heat cable. Be leave me I know how your thinking I use to think the same way. I've been doing this for

37 years now ,I come from the old school were you used aquariums

or built your own cages out of wood and glass or screen and we put wood on the bottom ! It was very very hard for me to be leave that a 3 -6 dollar plastic tube was better for my reptiles than a lot of what I was using and all of my reptiles are pets and you can still enjoy them in a tube besides they are most active at night anyway as Ball Pythons are nocturnal. I'm not trying to be or meaning to sound like a smart ass just trying to explain to the best of my typing ability . A smart ass ?no smart ???? Ass my wife said yes HaHa!!!! thanks for reading. David of DS Reptile Rescue, Removal and Rehabilitation

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