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I am planning on building a 12ft long 7ft wide cage in my unfinished basement. I am worried about the the cage sitting on the cement. I plan on have 2ft deep of decomposed granite in the cage.Unfinish basement are cool I was wondering if the cool from the floor will make the dirt surface cool and if the blackthroat digs a burrow will it be to cold for him. I could lift the cage off the floor but it will proably be pretty heavy with the dirt and other things in the cage. Hope this all makes since Thanks for the help

I actually had the same problem while designing my monitor cage (similar dimensions in an unfinished basement). I built a heated cage using a heater, thermostat, and heat lights that is holding the exact temperature that I set it for (with only a few degrees variance in either direction). The only problem I ran into is having a gradient air temp from one side of the cage to the other. Currently I have cool spots within in the cage but not a standard gradient.

mine are in a an unfinished basement, and seem to hold temps pretty well, i set all my cages on cinder blocks and it holds the weight fine, it takes some time for the lights to actually heat up the substrate though, you can use heatape as well as other heat pads and the like, but all in all should be fine, i keep all five of my albigs down there all year with no problems whatsoever.

Thanks for the replys. Cinder blocks should have thought of that they would work great Thanks again