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05-04-2008, 09:45 PM
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Heat lamps for snakes; good or bad? V 1.0
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05-04-2008, 09:52 PM
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Re: Heat lamps; good or bad? V 1.0
Good or bad for what?
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There are obviously good ways to use to use these and not-so-good uses as well. The question should be much more specific "in my opinion"
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05-04-2008, 09:56 PM
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Re: Heat lamps; good or bad? V 1.0
Sorry, I was thinking "for snakes". I'll change the thread title. Thanks, Gus.
Well I was thinking if they were generally considered a good thing, we should seek to incorporate them into our cages. If they were "bad", we should try to do without them.
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05-04-2008, 10:01 PM
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Re: Heat lamps; good or bad? V 1.0
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Handy trick, that.
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05-04-2008, 10:19 PM
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Re: Heat lamps for snakes; good or bad? V 1.0
It depends on the snake. Most are fine with belly heat, while others like to climb and might need a basking spot. I dont use them, because none of mine are aboreal.
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05-05-2008, 05:35 PM
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Re: Heat lamps for snakes; good or bad? V 1.0
I only use heat lamps or CHE. The surface areas provide the belly heat. It really is a silly question, any heating element in the wrong keeper's hands is dangerous. I knew a guy who used several heat rocks in an enclosure with no control or dial to change the heat they put out. How ever this was a room sized enclosure with multiple heat rocks that span the belly length of his anacondas (11 and 13 feet). This way the whole snake was heated and not a small area which is usually the problem with heat rocks.
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05-05-2008, 05:46 PM
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Very well. Give him cake!
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Re: Heat lamps for snakes; good or bad? V 1.0
I use heat lights on all my snakes except the boas and the BP. The carpets like to stay up in their branches, so they wouldn't get any use out of a heating pad. I tried one on my Jungle/Diamond and he never used it once in three months, so I finally gave up on it. The emerald has one as well. I do plan on switching to radiant heat panels when my cage is finished, though. I don't really care for heat lights, but as I'm using glass tanks right now, and half my snakes refuse to go to the bottom of the cage, I don't really have a choice. I will be glad to never see another bulb, though. I've had a few of them burn out after a week or two, and a couple have even burst when I bumped the lamp wrong.
I think they have their uses, but overall the cons outweigh the pros for me.
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