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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

11"FlexWatt and a Ranco
Run the 11" flexwatt from top to bottom against the center of the back wall and hook it to a Ranco T/Stat.
If $$ is the issue,save until you can afford good stuff before double spending on inferior equipment that fails and has to be repurchased.Which in most cases costs more then quality products
to begin with.

TnK

>>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 use heat rope on some of my racks, but I set in place using some metallic tape that I get from Home Depot. The tape conducts some of the heat from the heat rope and gives me a wider area of heat. The tape is not as hot as the heat rope itself, but it still gets pretty warm. If you can't spend the money right now on flexwatt, than this is a cheaper alternative that you can try. I don't remember off hand the exact name of the tape but it is used in A/C applications because it remains very adhesive even in the presence of moisture. Check the section of your local hardware store where all the a/c vents and a/c filters are.