I have seen that some people like to heat their reptile rooms instead of heating each individual cage. I want to hear what everyone things about both of these ideas. I personally heat all my reptile with heat tape and use a thermostat on it. I have heard that some people say that heating a whole room is cheaper but it seems like that the power bill for heating a room would be more than running heat tape attached to thermostats. I was also thinking that if you heated a room to one temp then the snakes could not thermoregulate beause their entire enclosure would be the same temperature. So I just wanted to see what everyone else did and what they thought about these two methods.
Thank you
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Heating Cages vs. Heating a Room
TSUSnakeGuy
Dec 16, 2005 12:59 PM
Replies (2)
combs reptiles
Dec 16, 2005 01:38 PM
The best way i find... is to heat or cool the room, depending on time of year, to correct ambient temp, then provide a hot spot with heat tape under one end of cage for a temp gradient. I like at least a 10 degree differance depending on the animal and what im doing with it at the time.
Its best to have sperate areas, for snakes that will be cooled and go off feed for a period and for those that are year around feeders and not breeding yet.
This works well for me.
Hope this helps a bit..
Thanks
Mike & Lucy Combs
Thats Mike jr in background with Captain my new 4 month old red dobe.
rainbowsrus
Dec 16, 2005 04:25 PM
I kinda do both. My reptile rooom is a downstairs bedroom that in my model was set up as a guest quarters. One outside wall, one wall borders the garage and the other two border other rooms. When the house was built, the original owner opted for the additional insulation for the guest room. More for sound proofing but still is fully insulated. I don't heat the room but with all the cages on thermostats, the excess heat is retained in the room so in affect the room is heated. The heat sources on each bank of cages runs lower to maintain the temps for that bank.
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