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Rick_Albig

I will soon be building a large outdoor building (approx 3mx6mx2.8m) that will house my snakes. I was just wondering how people heat there reptile rooms and vivs inside of them. There will be approximately 30 vivs ranging in size as well as various other hatchling racks etc. My ideal would be to have each viv, with its own heat source, thermostatically controlled but due to the high expense of all the stats this may not really be a viable option.

Cheers

Rick

Phil1988 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject:

Can't help on the heating, but when you start it if you need an extra pair of hands then gimme a shout Cool

Rick_Albig · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:24 am Post subject:

Phil1988 · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:36 am Post subject:

I can also hammer nails into wood and make brews Wink

Dan Bristow · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:02 am Post subject:

just an idea but maybe put under floor heating in?if the walls and roof are well insulated it may be worth a shot. cheaper to run that alot of the other heaters (oil filled,fan etc) and can still be thermostatically controlled.
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Scott W · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject:

If you can, add under floor heating. Either via an extension to your home system or an electric version.

I think it's vital for a large reptile room that's not part of the house.
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Bohan · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject:

I had an out side shed set up for my inverts years ago, its ok but we had loads of power-cuts at the time so i bought a generator for emergencys. Very Happy

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Rick_Albig · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject:

Cheers guys. I am considering UFH, but this will only give me a background temp in the building. I was more interested in how everyone heats their vivaria when they have such a large collection. Guess im trying to find a clever way of saving some pennies Laughing

Rick

Scott W · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject:

If the room is mainly for basking lizards, then switch your day and night over.

I did this with my last reptile room and it worked out a treat.

Lights came on around 5pm and off again 5am the next morning, the advantages were;
1 ) Cheap night time electricity rate in use when the bulk of the heat is needed (basking lights)
2 ) Warmer daytime temps meant that their 'night time' temps were warm enough to have NO additional heating
3 ) It meant that the hours I was actually at home, the animals would be active (ie get home from work at 5pm, I could spend all night working in the room without the lights going off).
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peaches · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject:

That's really interesting Scott, I was wondering about switching their cycles over - great to hear someone else has done it before.

I have a rep shed which is insulated well but I am struggling with heating more this winter - I've sold most of my animals, only a few left. and it's surprising how much warmth you actually get from the actual vivs themself. With with not many left there has been a big temp drop.

Background heating I use a couple oil filled rads.
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