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Originally Posted by dazza74  when you buy or make your cage make sure the cage is high mine is 6ft high by 4ft wide by 2ft deep and use 2 by 250 watt ceramics and 2 40watt blue party globes and put a hide and big water bowl and plenty of branches for your diamond to climb and put a basking shelf or 2 but mainly under the heat lights .you can go in my avatar to see the enclosure i made for my girl she is around 6.5ft long now and her last shed measurement was 2.55cms long hope this helps you Zimbo |
" 2 by 250 watt ceramics "
For the same inclosure size, I use a 40 or 60 watt spot light - phillips spotone.
Each enclosure has a shelf approx. 500mm [ 1/2 metre ] below the down light.
The basking spot temp. is 32 deg.
Its on between 6.30am - 11am - thats it. [ Unless its feeding time, then they all get an extra few hours or so late in the afternoon for the first couple of days after a feed. ]
No night time heat is ever given.
Being a 12 month old Snake, you may need some heating at night depending where you
actually live.
Cheers,
Aleks.
