I recently moved from Florida to Southwest Virginia and am keeping my snakes in the basement of the new house. Since the basement is on the cool side (low 60's with no heat), I have been using an oil filled electric radiator placed near my snake cages to keep the ambient temps up a little bit. I have been keeping the radiator on max power (1500 watts) with it's own thermostat set to "3". I am wondering, as I sit here looking at what I think is a pretty high electric bill, if I would be better off, from an energy efficiency standpoint, keeping the radiator on low power but increasing the thermostat setting. If I could get the temps I wanted by doing that, would that be more energy efficient? Does this make sense to anyone but me? The snakes I keep are Kenyan Sand Boas and this is the first time I have had to keep them somewhere that gets too cool in the winter. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.

Rob

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