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Snake Closet?

lumene

lumene

rebuilding my life
Okay, I have been away for a long, long while now, but I am back! I have a new prospective project and I need some serious professional opinions...

I have recently downgraded from renting an entire apartment, to a single bedroom in a home with roommates, and I never realized just how easy it was to keep my reptiles cozy in the old easy bake oven I was in for minimum hydro...

I have 20 snakes right now, and most of them are being kept in a closet (tubs stacked)... and the heat in my new room, well it sucks. they're heated, but at night it really drops.

I need to know if it would be wise to pop a piece of plywood (or something) with like 11" wide heat tape taped on it, monitored by a thermostat will be enough to get my guys through the rest of the winter? In my apartment I only needed to heat the bedroom, so I never worried about it before.

I need to know kind of soon, to get everything ready before Christmas week, I don't want to worry about my guys while I'm not there...
 
Sounds like a good way to get them the heat they need. You'll probably find that the 11'' heat tape as back heat will have to be on all the time to get enough heat out of it.
Have you considered brumating them for a few months ?
 
Heat tape is cheaper than heating the entire room like I am.

I can't brumate my guys, most of the snakes I take in come from homes where they were improperly cared for, or they're juvies. I don't want to risk it. I'd rather do my best and heat them while lowering my end of the hydro bill. Its been a toss up the last couple weeks, if I heat the room, the snakes are happy, the landlady and mammals are not...
 
I'm agreeing on the heat tape. :)
I use it as back heat on all my racks and have found that they are full on 10-11 months out of the year. You might find that you can hold off buying a thermostat this time of year since it might have to be at the highest setting if you do regulate it. Standing a board up with 11'' heat tape behind your stack of tubs in the closet sounds like a quick fix for you.
Brumating was just a thought not knowing what you had of course.
good luck with the project :)
 
The closet only fits my 28qt tubs, and the juvies are on the shelves, no room for a heater inside, and my landlady won't let me plug one into the wall near the closet even. They're on the opposite side of the room from the floorboard heater, and the window is an old spigl pane crank above it.
 
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