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cage heat mats & lighting

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trenna davis

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I am wondering what the best location is for placing a heat pad on cages for corn snakes. I really want to build wooden cages to house our corn snakes that will be like display tanks with some little lights so you can see them & I am not sure where the best spot to put the heat pad would be, under neath or on one end. what is also best to use for the front - glass, plexi-glass or something else. Also what type oflights would be best just for show to add light to the cages to view the snakes as I know know that they don't require heat lights now, as they dry out the tanks to much I live in Ontario, canada.
I really like the look of the wooden cages that are posted on this site they look awesome i would like to make something similar to house our 6+ corn snakes
Any info & ideas would be greatly appreciated
thanks
 
Corn snakes like 'belly' heat, so typically you would put the heat pad on the bottom side of the floor. So would look like this: heat pad, floor, substrate.

If you have a wooden floor, not sure how well this would work - depending on the thickness of the floor. Alternatively, you could go floor, heat pad, ceramic tile (over the heat pad), substrate. I wonder how a wooden floor would hold up snake dropping and urine...

Make sure you buy a thermostat to regulate how hot the heat pad gets.

For lighting, I use led - it does not get hot thus does not sap any of the humidity. I have a color strip that I got at Ikea. It is pretty cool in that you can adjust the color of the lighting.

My doors are a sliding door setup and they are tempered glass. If you go with hinge type of setup, I would think plexiglass would be the way to go.
 
I would guess glass or pvc would be best. Or wood covered with tile would work well too, I'd think.
 
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