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There are so many options now for heating racks. Which do most of you use and which seem the best. I see avail belly heat, back heat and heatr tape down the side? This is for kings and pits.
I have 1 rack already with cable heat.

Thanks

David

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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python
Eastern King
Mexican Black King
Sonoran Gopher
Aberrent Cal King
Anduran Milk
Hypo Brooks
Amel Motley Corn
White Sided Bull
Striped Pacific Gopher
Axanthic Brooksi
Goini King

I love the smell of aspen shavings in the morning...lol

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"

It really depends, a lot. I see rack heat mis-used quite a bit.

In my opinion, the most important (in no particular order) condiderations are:

1) Species being kept.

2) Temperature of room where rack will be kept.

3) Material and design of the rack.

I only have two racks with supplemental heat (the original Vision racks, different from the current model) and they both use heat cable where I can custom route cable on each level. But it is routed in 1" thick PVCX so there is a lot of thermal mass, which is ideal.

Most of the time that rack heat is not used properly is when you have an open rack lacking thermal mass. In a relatively cool room just having a heat pad underneath can create hot spots. This is especially bad if the tubs are set up with a simple plastic bowl and paper substrate.
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Currently keeping:

6.10 Gonyosoma oxycephala (Javan, mixed colors)

1.1 Philodryas baroni

1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback

thanks Chris,,,,i will keep some of my kings and pits in the rack. my room temp in winter rarely falls below 70F. And i have always used aspen so the snakes can burrow if they want more warmth.
just seemed so many new options out there,,that i wondered if any were better.
Thanks again
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python
Eastern King
Mexican Black King
Sonoran Gopher
Aberrent Cal King
Anduran Milk
Hypo Brooks
Amel Motley Corn
White Sided Bull
Striped Pacific Gopher
Axanthic Brooksi
Goini King

I love the smell of aspen shavings in the morning...lol

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"