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I was wondering if anyone here has used shelf liners for a snake cage?I am using that in my beardies cage and like it in there and was wondeing how it would work in my snakes tanks. Thanks Steve
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Owner of:
0.1 Red Tail Boa,
1.0 Red Tail Boa,
0.1 Reticulated Python,
0.1 Green Burmese Python,
1.0 Bearded Dragon,
0.1 Leopard Gecko

I use it in my Beardies cages, but have carpet in my snake's tank. Since she only poops once every couple weeks I find it is easy enough to handle. The beardies on the other hand need cleaning daily so the shelf liner works great for them. The only other concern I have about using the shelf liner for my snake is she uses the rough texture of the carpet to rub against when shedding.

Sorry I couldn't help much.

>>I was wondering if anyone here has used shelf liners for a snake cage?I am using that in my beardies cage and like it in there and was wondeing how it would work in my snakes tanks. Thanks Steve
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>>Owner of:
>>0.1 Red Tail Boa,
>>1.0 Red Tail Boa,
>>0.1 Reticulated Python,
>>0.1 Green Burmese Python,
>>1.0 Bearded Dragon,
>>0.1 Leopard Gecko
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Lisa
www.beginnersbasics.com

Cricket FREE babies!

>>I was wondering if anyone here has used shelf liners for a snake cage?I am using that in my beardies cage and like it in there and was wondeing how it would work in my snakes tanks. Thanks Steve
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>>Owner of:
>>0.1 Red Tail Boa,
>>1.0 Red Tail Boa,
>>0.1 Reticulated Python,
>>0.1 Green Burmese Python,
>>1.0 Bearded Dragon,
>>0.1 Leopard Gecko

I don't think a shelf liner would be thick enough to protect the snakes belly from being too hot. From what I understand it is kind of important to make sure you have a substrate a snake can't get under when using an UTH unless you are using a rheostat, which would allow you to reduce the heat output of the UTH.
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Rob

Not neccessarily. I use a UTH for my leopard geckos and shelf liner. I use a human heating pad on a medium setting (3-setting pad) for the tank. My indoor/outdoor thermometer records the temperature as 93.something degrees F. Just use some tweaking to get a good setting for temperature.
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0.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Zeo)
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos (Vienna, Unnamed)
1.0.0 Golden Retriever, Rocky, 10 years young

>>Not neccessarily. I use a UTH for my leopard geckos and shelf liner. I use a human heating pad on a medium setting (3-setting pad) for the tank. My indoor/outdoor thermometer records the temperature as 93.something degrees F. Just use some tweaking to get a good setting for temperature.
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>>0.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Zeo)
>>0.2.0 Leopard Geckos (Vienna, Unnamed)
>>1.0.0 Golden Retriever, Rocky, 10 years young

you're using.
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Rob