StellaDoore
Active Member
My house mates and I are buying a snake and he's built an enclosure for it. It's pretty snazzy, 4x2x2 built onto a TV cabinet.
I can't remember what it's made of, but have been assured it's well insulated, and has a perspex front (although he may buy glass).
We're having trouble heating it though. My friend bought a 275watt globe, but that can hardly get the cage up to 30C. I'm pretty sure I'm going to ban him from using the globe coz it could actually cook the snake, but he suggests angling it away from the ground (so the line of light runs parallel with the roof) so it will heat the cage, but not put intense heat on the snake. But then we don't have a basking light or a hot/cold gradient.
What can we do about this? Any combination of heat mat/basking lamp/crazy powerful globe that I can use?
Also, we're getting our first snake, a male classic Bredli =) pretty excited
I can't remember what it's made of, but have been assured it's well insulated, and has a perspex front (although he may buy glass).
We're having trouble heating it though. My friend bought a 275watt globe, but that can hardly get the cage up to 30C. I'm pretty sure I'm going to ban him from using the globe coz it could actually cook the snake, but he suggests angling it away from the ground (so the line of light runs parallel with the roof) so it will heat the cage, but not put intense heat on the snake. But then we don't have a basking light or a hot/cold gradient.
What can we do about this? Any combination of heat mat/basking lamp/crazy powerful globe that I can use?
Also, we're getting our first snake, a male classic Bredli =) pretty excited