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Hi,
I have a small collection of snakes, mostly colubrids/corns, but a few pythons too. My space is about 500 sq. feet in an insulated garage. The place has electricity but no real heat like a system, etc. Any thoughts on how to best heat this area during the winter. I've pretty much winterized the building from cracks, etc. I have some adult corns I'll be bringing inside for hibernation but the babies and the pythons I want to keep in the garage. Any advice on units, etc. to buy?
The pythons will have to come inside. They will not tolerate any low temps. If you have just enough general heat to keep the temp at a constant 50 to 60 degrees for the colubrids that should do it. I course all bets are off if you open the garage door often. You might get away with opening the door if you live in the deep south such as south Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida.
Assuming you will bring the pythons inside you should be OK. Keep the colubrids at 50 to 60 degrees for two to three months and then they will need to warm up. I know I will be corrected if I have stated anything that is a little off. These guys and gals are great!!
Dave
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Just to be clear. What tempurture do you want to keep it? And where do you live? Also how much insulation?
In general I'd say a 20' approx of 240 volt electric baseboard heater would be plenty. BUT insulation factor is one, and cracks are even more important. One small crack can be a lot of BTU's against that heat.
Also baseboard heat is relatively cheap. I'd buy 3 8'r. Unlike loss of effectiveness on to big a AC unit, not a lot on to much heat. Within reason. I'd also run 2 ceiling fans and a GOOD stat.
Baseboard is also easy to run off a generator.
Good luck
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>> I have a small collection of snakes, mostly colubrids/corns, but a few pythons too. My space is about 500 sq. feet in an insulated garage. The place has electricity but no real heat like a system, etc. Any thoughts on how to best heat this area during the winter. I've pretty much winterized the building from cracks, etc. I have some adult corns I'll be bringing inside for hibernation but the babies and the pythons I want to keep in the garage. Any advice on units, etc. to buy?
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom
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