What is the better way to go?
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Heat Panels or Belly Heat
rottenweiler9
Sep 15, 2008 03:31 PM
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laurarfl
Sep 28, 2008 08:49 PM
I can't site anything specific, but when I was buying my big cage and looking into this issue, I decided to go with RHP. The deciding factor was that overhead heat was more natural. I was hoping that RHP with a thermostat would be more energy efficient, but the Burm cage runs wide open. The boa cage on top is heated both ways, I guess. It gets the rising heat from the cage below, plus it has its own RHP. That thermostat is kept on the very low end of the spectrum.
dmnall
Sep 30, 2008 06:40 PM
I personally use Flexwatt heat tape for belly heat because most snakes like Burmese pythons, stay terrestrial once they hit a certain size and the RHP is great for Arboreal snakes like GTP, and Scrub Pythons.
Charlie
