I acquired several model 221's (28"x22"x12"
a while back and was looking for heating and lighting ideas...these don't have the fluorescent vent and are quite dark inside so I installed bulb fixtures off to one side (ceiling) thinking I could use a low wattage red or blue heat bulb to both heat and light them...but now I have second thoughts since even a 25w red bulb gets pretty hot and they're so low it could easily burn a climbing snake. So I could either build some kind of bulb cage around the fixtures and go with my red heat bulb idea (would make it a pain to change bulbs and probably would not provide enough light) or use the lowest possible wattage compact fluorescent bulbs and put them on a timer so they are on daylight hours. So that brings me to the second part of the question...
What are you guys using to heat smaller visions...I assume flexwatt or one of the pre-made heat pad/tapes(such as Cobra or Exo-Terra)? Are you using aluminium tape to tape it to the bottom? And for anybody else who has put light fixtures in a vision-type cage, are you still stacking them one on top of the other with all the weight resting on the electrical cords...or are you using some type of spacer or a rack? Any help is appreciated...
