return to main index
  mobile - desktop
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter follow us on YouTube link to us on LinkedIn
 
Click to visit PACNWRS
This Space Available
3 months for $50.00
Locate a business by name: click to list your business
search the classifieds. buy an account
events by zip code list an event
Search the forums             Search in:
News & Events: Trap Talk interview with Jon Poff . . . . . . . . . .  San Diego Herp Society Meeting - Nov 18, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Suncoast Herp Society Meeting - Nov 22, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  DFW Herp Society Meeting - Nov 22, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Tucson Herpetological Society Meeting - Nov 24, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Bay Area Herpetological Society Meeting - Nov 28, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Greater Cincinnati Herp Society Meeting - Dec 03, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Southwestern Herp Society Meeting - Dec 06, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Kentucky Reptile Expo - Dec. 06, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  St. Louis Herpetological Society - Dec 14, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  San Diego Herp Society Meeting - Dec 16, 2025 . . . . . . . . . . 
Meet Jon Poff: An introduction to Kingsnake.com's new Owner

Side heat style

[ Login ] [ User Prefs ] [ Search Forums ] [ Back to Main Page ] [ Back to Kingsnake Forum ]

Posted by: markg at Fri Apr 17 03:54:36 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by markg ]  
   

Been trying the side-heat method instead of bottom heat. Glass tank with a heat pad mounted to the side, then rock "leaners" layered against the cage wall.

You can barely see a hint of the red coil of the snake in there, I should have moved the stupid plant. If I try to open the tank lid, the snakes disappear into the crevice or substrate, so I have to take pics from outside the tank.

I let the heat pad get nice and toasty, like 95 deg, and the snakes use it. This snake is going opaque, and his whole body was smashed against the heat pad when I came in this morning. Usually it is just part of his body, or he sits under a nearby leaner rock not against the heater, or else inbetween both.

Trying this with rosyboas too. So far so good.






-----
Mark

   

[ Hide Replies ]


>> Next topic:  Speckled king update - cwolf, Fri Apr 17 14:18:35 2009
<< Previous topic:  florida king - hondo1199, Thu Apr 16 23:14:40 2009