know this has come up before but i have a 4'x8'x3' screened enclosure for my 36" red tegu. i live in central florida and it is usually pretty warm, but we do get several nights a year that dip to about 30 degrees. the enclosure has a plastic sheet roof and one one short wall. one long wall is plywood. the other two are hardware cloth screen. there is about an 18" tall hill that takes up about a quarter of the cage, on the end with the plastic sheet for a wall. he has a cave in this hill for a hide box. for the daytime during chilly days, i have heat provided via heat lamps, but i dont want to run them at night. ceramic emmitters disperse too much heat and very heat reaches the ground level. so i'm looking at some sort of under tank heater. i have a thermostat from big apple. i was looking at kane heat pads, and heat tapes. what do you guys recommend? i dont think it would need to be any bigger than the hill during the night, since he always sleeps in there anyway. oh, yeah, it would have to be able to withstand rain and weather. i dont think that the zoomed heat pads are up to that, plus they're really expensive for what you get.
btw, i also posted this exact message on the tortoise forum. in case you're wondering, i have two identical cages back to back (actually, the plywood wall separates the two) and am looking for as many opinions as possible.
