New enclosure heating advice

trailblazer295 · 04-13-17, 10:36 AM

A UTH or heat tape will only heat the area it's making contact with. The rest of the cage will be room temperature. Only a heat bulb or rhp will heat the cage. They do make cages to cover a che. I believe ziggy posted a link for Amazon once with them.

GyGbeetle · 04-13-17, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by trailblazer295

A UTH or heat tape will only heat the area it's making contact with. The rest of the cage will be room temperature. Only a heat bulb or rhp will heat the cage. They do make cages to cover a che. I believe ziggy posted a link for Amazon once with them.

But I don't think the cage will prevent it from warping the hide. that's my issue right now. We were going to buy some cages, but it's all open. yes, the animal won't burn himself on it because it has that weird space-agey material that prevents the cage from heating up. But the bulb will still cause the hide to warp, and that's why I'm freaking out.

Do you think it would be better to get RHP? What about getting a lower watt bulb? Another heat source entirely?

trailblazer295 · 04-13-17, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by GyGbeetle

But I don't think the cage will prevent it from warping the hide. that's my issue right now. We were going to buy some cages, but it's all open. yes, the animal won't burn himself on it because it has that weird space-agey material that prevents the cage from heating up. But the bulb will still cause the hide to warp, and that's why I'm freaking out.

Do you think it would be better to get RHP? What about getting a lower watt bulb? Another heat source entirely?

For boas a non light emitting source would be ideal. What wattage che are you using? An rhp doesn't get nearly as hot so it wouldn't warp anything.

GyGbeetle · 04-13-17, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by trailblazer295

For boas a non light emitting source would be ideal. What wattage che are you using? An rhp doesn't get nearly as hot so it wouldn't warp anything.

75 watt bulb. I'm wondering if we went down a wattage? Also, the hides are pretty tall, and laying underneath the heat source. They are those Reptile Basics plastic hides. So with 18 inches, maybe they are just too tall and too close to the heat source. But then, I have always thought that boas needed their primary hide underneath heat.

There's the added bonus of having cats that stare at the snakes that are now at ground level, so we need to keep the hides in for their own stress levels.

I don't know. I'm rambling. I'm going to try and take a pic to show you what I mean