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I have one rack that I have built before and I use 3 inch heat tape. I have just built one that has 13 levels with 3 shoeboxes wide. To get heat tape it will be kinda pricey and I will do it if I have to but I am wanting to know of any other options. Heating the whole room is not an option. I know that Big Apple has some heat rope but I am afraid that will not cover enough belly space. What does everyone else think?
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

I'm actually getting ready to order a couple strands of their heatrope for a rack. Heat rope should work well if you fish it back and forth a couple times for the belly heat.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

Depends. For baby colubrids, I think heat rope is fantastic. It is safer IMO because of the small surface area of the heater. Even if the heater gets very hot by accident, you're not overheating much surface area of the box and frying the snake with 2 passes of the heater under each box. Yet, there is enough surface area for a baby colubrid to get warm on.

Heat rope allows you to run as much as you want (loops or S-curves) under each box. You are not constained to 3 inch increments or 11" like you are with Flexwatt. That is a real benefit. But, it takes more work to build a rack with heat cable because it isn't flat. You need to leave space under each box to make S-curves with the heater.

That is why I like Vision racks. Well, it is one of the reasons.
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Mark

I say save your time and the stress and buy a vision cage , just my oppinion, its more than worth the cost .

Its easy to build my racks and cages though and its fun.
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa