Heat tape is what I use in the main snake house and it does fine. In my rack systems the heat tape is controled by a thermastats, but in the large cages they are not, as they are designed to stay 20 deg. above the nominal temperatures, so that lets th snakes regulate to there choice. But, I also heat the entire snake house too. Now if I get a snake that starts acting strange or sick, I will move it out of the snakehouse into the shed where I have the heating pads, like Ginter said, with low, med, and high settings. The shed is not heated, so I used the heating pads because they have a more constant temperature and do not fluctuate as much regardless of room temp. I had a couple of sick boas that I moved out to the shed, and not knowing that the heating pads automatically shut off after 8 hours, the boas sat out in the shed several days in 30 deg temp. several days...and as you probably know...not good!!!

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