Re: need help on heating

jenn <jsronce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Cindy wrote:
>> Have you tried ceramic heat emitters, or are you using light bulbs?
>
> The cage has a mix of them. The warm end has a large bulb and a CHE,
> and the cool end has a fluorescent light during the day (just for
> light) and two night bulbs on 24 hrs.
>
>> You could make a temporary lean-to or small room with heavy plastic
>> and put an oil-filled radiator in there. You could use PVC pipe or
>> leftover baseboard trim or 1 x 2s, etc., to frame it.
>
> Eh, I'd rather keep it all looking pretty if I can. If I need to,
> I'll spend money of radiant heat panels and such, I just need to know
> what to get.
>
> Jennifer

For my iguana cage, which is currently about 150gallons (homemade, and
he'll need a bigger one soon!), I have overhead heat wired down to the
top of the age to keep cats from setting the house on fire, and under
his ramp up ho his browsing shelf, I have the largest size T-Rex Cobra
Heatmat. I got it for $31 at www.reptiledirect.com. I use a smaller
one in my snake tank, and both of them work great without ever getting hot
enough to burn my babies. I highly recommend them over heating pads...
because they warm the fixtures rather than themselves or the air, there's
much less risk of a fire, and hey can be placed directly in the tank on
bottom, top, or sides. You might also consider a warm mist machine.
For our iggy,we have a large pool of water that sits on a heating pad
so that he has warm, moist air all the time.

Velvet
.

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