I do not trust heat pads or flex watt inside an enclosure. This may just be because I never have done it but I do not plan on using it in enclosures. Right now she is in a large sterilite box (over 100qt) with a heat pad underneith one side. I use belly heat on all my rack kept snakes but my boas are to large to keep in a rack.

I normally keep her and another adult in a large homemade terrarium and cannot supply belly heat through the bottom of the enclosure in any why that I have used before, but have used heat lamps and am able to get temps of 75-80 up to 95 at the basking sites.

The problem was that last time I fed her I also changed heat sources at the same time as the previous fixtures were giving me trouble. The new source could not provide the heat needed so I changed back to bulbs until I can build new enclosures. I was planing on making new terrariums as the one I have now is inefficient on space and I want to go back to housing them seperately.

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