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i am looking into getting about six 3'x2'x12" and two 3'x2'x18" and was wondering with heating because i use flexwatt heat tape how would i stack the cages ontop of each other because there is small plastic pieces on the end that stick up some. if some1 has any cages from them stacked please help me out and show pics thank you and here is one of the critters going in

I have boaphiles, 3x2x1 one and 2 door, and I use flexwatt for heating. Stacking is fine.. I used a 12" piece of 12" flexwatt under each cage. The top cages do heat up a bit more than the lower ones, but not by much.

so the cages just stick up a lil bit from it then? or do you have the small plastic piece hangin out the back? like the way it looks though

I did not use the plastic 'insulators' I went straight with lots of electrical tape. I did use the connectors on a few other flexwatt pieces I did, but after seeing many others not use them and even on some cases just soldering the wires directly to the heat tape I figured I would see how I liked it. As long as you are sure to cover every exposed wire/conductive parts of the flexwatt it seems to be ok. I still have a bit of 'lift' towards the back of the cages where the heat tape connectors are, but not enough to really notice.. unless you are like me and notice everything

here is a pic of what I did... like others say when posting pics of their flexwatt setups: I do not recommend doing it this way. Read up on how to properly do it and go from there. Note also that there are 2 wires coming from the tape.. I also wired mine in 'parallel' so that I would only have one plug for each stack of cages.. Best of luck whatever you do! I love these cages!

I believe you are referring to the small plastic covers that go over your flexwatt connections. Boaphile cages that come with preinstalled heat do not use the covers. They stack nice and even, no tilting or leaning.
If you are going to install your own flexwatt and use the small covers, I would recommend that you make your tape a little longer and hang the tag end with the covers out the back or side. If you try to stack cages on top of the covers they will not stack level.

thats what i was talking about and wsnt sure how boaphiles tape worked but i have used flexwatt for some years with my racks i made and work great. thanks for the help and input and here is a pic of my female rainbo boa im looking for a man for she is going in the 3'x2'x18" with a perch