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HappyHillbilly
at Tue Oct 16 12:35:48 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HappyHillbilly ]
I went ahead & put casters on the bottom of my 6 x 4 enclosure. I figured that if I ever could budge it, I could move. Might have to run a chain thru a window & hook it to my 4WD truck, but hey, it's moveable. Ha! Ha!
If the cage is going to be in a room of the house that's on the same heating/cooling system as the rest of the house, you shouldn't have to worry much about night temps. But, I've got a hunch you've already thought that one out, just making sure.
Some leave the lights on 24/7 and just make sure the monitor has a dark place to go. Just about any hide can be made plenty dark enough, whether it's on the hot or cool end. It doesn't have to be pitch-dark.
I've not seen many, if any, monitor enclosures using CHEs (ceramic heating elements), but I think they are a viable option.
Each setup is different & takes some finagling, experimenting, to get the basking site temps & ambient temps balanced out. Even the same cage/setup may not produce the same results in my house as it would in yours. That's why it's so important to set up the lights so you can have as much adjustment as possible. (lower the lights, raise basking site, add additional heating source for hot end, OR, add additional heating source for cool end, increase/decrease airflow, etc... It can take several days to get an enclosure adjusted to bare minimum specs before moving the monitor in.
I suggest you start out with the two bulbs you've got coming from Pro Exotics, placed together for a basking site, and go from there. By positioning the basking site a tad towards center of cage you can increase cool end ambient temps. What I mean is, don't put the basking lights as far as they'll go towards the hot end wall.
Hang in there!
HH
BTW, once again your thread has moved on down the list and not getting as many views, now. Maybe start again? Ha! I dunno. Whatever ya think. 
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RE: Cage Construction - HappyHillbilly, Tue Oct 16 12:35:48 2007
