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My snakes are in the basement this is 2 rooms which was built partly as a favor for cheap. It has been really cold here in jersey last few days and so has it in the rooms, I then took some plastic and taked around the window which had a bad draft because of old wood fram. I switch the thermometer on inside and it was reading 58-61 and this is with an oil filled radiator heator on high. I should be getting my new jungle habitats cage 2morrow, now the wood cage is heated with a buld hot side was only upper 70's low 80's I then had to put a human heat pad in. Something I notice when they made the room is that they didnt put too much effort into insulation, the insulation seem small it didnt full the entire gap between each beam and some spots I dont think they put any. I tried to use another oil filled heater but it triped the breaker and knock the power out. Is there anything I can do to get the temps up? are there any heaters that may be better then the oil filled? Should I try to carefully take the sheet rock walls down find good insulation and put the walls back up? any ideas you have that you may have done would be apreciated.

Wow 61 with a heater on high... Goto home depot and look in the insulation section. There are sheets of pink looking foam.. You could do a small room for next to nothing. All you have to do is glue, staple or nail it to the walls.. This would be alot easier than taking down the sheetrock. Hope this helps,
-Matt
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CBB Herps and Heating Supplies

Good looking Matt, thanks your right about that

I have a uninsulated room in my garage where I keep my snakes. The ceiling does have a small amount of insulation but that's it.

The room is 7'x7' and has two exterior walls and two interior walls. The garage itself is not heated.

The door to the room is a hollow-core so very little R value.

I stapled/taped Reflectix Foil/Bubble insulation to the walls and ceiling and am heating the room with a oil-filled, radiator style heater.

Last night it dropped to 5* below zero in my area and my recorded low in the room was only 84*. The heater is still only set at it's lowest setting.

Impressive stuff and very easy to put up.

This kind of shows you what it looks like:

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Current snakes:

0.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

3.3 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

3.3 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)

I just got an e-mail from Bob at ProProducts. They do make heat panels designed to heat entire rooms.

My electric provider offers a 50% decrease in electric charges when using these style of radiant heaters so I'll be doing this for my next snake room.

Just thought I'd mention it.
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Current snakes:

0.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

3.3 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

3.3 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black & Tan)