The traffic is about the same as the old house. Perhaps being in the basement, the difference may be there is less sunlight here, than my old herp room that had deck sliders that allowed sunlight to come in?

Though the blinds were usually drawn...to keep temps from skyrocketing.

I had to plead ignorance about CHE's. I know nothing about them, though I wish I knew how to set them up. My setups are either heat lamps, RHPs, or UTH's.

Heat lamps are NOT a herpers friend.

I need to find a more economical way to heat, as our power company raised our rates 60% in the past year. I'm spending tons of money on electric bills, that could otherwise be used to buy more animals.

Before our New England winter settles in, I plan on doing some work in the basement to reduce heat loss.

If I can raise my ambient temps even a little, that will save some money. I cool all my snakes during the winter, but that still costs a bunch to keep the temps low.

I'm figuring that the RHPs will cycle less frequently, reducing power consumption, while still maintaining optimum temps.

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