I just got my first neodesha cage today and was trying to think of how to heat one side of it for my corn snake. It has a place for a basking light, but currently I use a human heating pad as a UTH in his smaller plastic tank. The small plastic tank has been fine just sittin directly on top of it. Can I use the human heating pad with the Neodesha? Do I need to raise the cage a little to allow circulation? I am worried that raising it will cause the heat to be insufficient. It is a 36 inch cage - so will 1 heating pad set on high be enough??? Any sugestions?
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Neodesha cage and heat pad
SittonJ
Mar 11, 2004 08:56 PM
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WingedWolfPsion
Mar 12, 2004 08:46 AM
I would raise the cage slightly, so that it's not sitting on the pad. I use a human heating pad to heat a 30 gallon tank for leopard geckos--it wasn't enough, so I added a second one, which I only use part of the time, on a rheostat. It should be fine for a corn snake. Human heating pads vary--one of mine puts out more heat than the other.
SittonJ
Mar 12, 2004 04:09 PM
that when you added a second one, you just put that right on top of the first one?
