` Overhead heating from lights and emitters is just a way to hambone a set up to get going cheap and easy. It goes along with open top / screen top cages as two ways to make the husbandry of tropical, humidity loving snakes difficult, and dangerous for the animals.

` Floor heating allows you to have lower air temperatures, and not chill the animals.

` Floor heating, done right with thermostats AND rheostats, and heat tape of differing wattage beneath the cage is best. You can have warmer and cooler spots, and a hot spot to put your water over. If the cage is vented correctly [ only at the bottom ] the warm water will create much humidity which the cage will trap. Just remember, warm water must be cleaned very often, it's a bacterium's paradise.
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• Belly Heat vs Back Heat - smsnakes, Sun May 2 10:19:33 2004
• Belly Heat all the way - tomas, Sun May 2 11:22:03 2004
• DITTO TOMAS............... - twh, Sun May 2 14:18:10 2004
• What maker or manufacturer of racks do you recommend? n/p - jfmoore, Mon May 3 08:18:24 2004
• RE: What maker or manufacturer of racks do you recommend? n/p - twh, Thu May 6 09:55:10 2004
• RE: Belly Heat vs Back Heat - dfr, Sun May 2 14:31:45 2004
• IMO... - chris_harper2, Sun May 2 15:22:09 2004