I am totally lost as to what your trying to do. To me, it looks AWFUL. I hope I am wrong.

First, why do you want a snake to use a crack? Why do you think they use cracks? This is very important to understand.

Without knowing what you are attempting to do, looking at your pictures is scary.

If your attempting to attract a pyro to that little round crack to use heat, then you have overkill going for you, that heat emitter is suitable for a retic. Think about how much air gets dried out between that heat emitter an the actual area to be heated and about how much actual heat it takes to warm up that area, or part of that area.

Lets start at the begining. Is this for a pyro? If so, they please understand, pyros do not use cracks. OK, thats wrong, a very small percentage will use them for convience. That is, 99% of all pyros come from places without cracks. The small percentage that occur around suitable cracks, use them for very specific reasons and for a very short time.

As you may have seen, I have pics of pyros using cracks, and gilas, and torts, and blacktails, and diamondbacks, and ringnecks, and lyresnakes and much more. Each as its own specific reason to use them.

In most cases, there are two main reasons, So lets cover those a little bit.

The ground is too cold for tasks the snake needs to accomplish. In this case, they will come up and find a suitable base temp crack, crevice, hole, bark, etc, that is very consistant and has the right feel and humidity. Then they will move to the front to warm up a little and back to cool down a little. Snakes can and will regional heat, that is, they only warm up a section of their body. An example is, only warming up the bolus or the ovum/eggs. Or the head, or feet(for lizards) got pics showing all this.

This also happens when the ground gets too wet, that is, their main holes are soaked and they need to dry out. Rare around here. hahahahahahahahahaha

They normally use a specific crack, not any old crack. They use one that is proven. That is, it works and is safe. Safe means lots of things. It means safe from predators, but much more, its really means safe from dehydration, safe from overheating(whats wrong with your setup), safe from freezing. And it means its safe to get to and safe to leave.

So, in a cage, a crack is not about most of that. What is it for? If you want I can post some pics. Cheers

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