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all right i purchased the rubbermaid containers for my snakes how do i get thelight in their?
 
The light should shine through the sides, unless you got the dark colored ones...If your using a heat light, you are gonna have to switch to a heat pad hooked up to a thermometer or a rheostat...

HTH
 
Are you talking about a heat lamp? You can't use a heat lamp very efficently with a rubbermaid. For one it will have to be VERY close and could melt it. For two, It would have to be a high wattage to provide a 83-86 or so spot through the rubbermaid.

A heating pad is the choice for rubbermaids. With a thermastat of course.

bmm
 
FYI, it -is- possible to mod a rubbermaid to use a heat lamp without melting...

This took a soldering iron, 1/4" hardware cloth, a drill, and some nuts & bolts. Soldering iron cut out the original square, cut hardware cloth to fit and set it on top, drill holes in the squares in the hardware cloth where you put the bolts through, fasten with nuts.

The intent with this wasn't really for a heat lamp, but it would work. You wouldn't need as high a wattage as on a glass tank because the plastic will hold heat better. I think I tried this because the other identical tub was having problems with condensation with just holes melted in the lid, so I wanted better ventilation without holes all over the sides.

Also, I like to use human heat pads for rubbermaid containers. They don't get as hot as the zoomed heat pads I have.
 

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Wow LOL....That's a bit too much work for me. I'd rather just spend and get a heat pad. Besides, my adult male corns seem to rub alot and wouldn't have noses after that! lol but that is definitly a good idea.

bmm
 
:D Yeah, it is a bit of work. But the thing had so much condensation water would fall off the lid when I opened it up and the aspen liked to mold. I think the snake inhabitant sloshed his water bowl around a lot. Didn't have any problems after the screen was installed :). I did put a lamp on top to see how sturdy it was, and it is very sturdy, the screen doesn't sag at all. But I used undertank heating on it the rest of the time.

BTW, forgot to mention that I would only consider doing a heat lamp on a -tall- (like 12"+) rubbermaid, not one of those 7" tall ones.
 
ok thanx i have an old heating pad ( for people) do you put it in or underneath ?






i just read the weirdest thing ive heard about corn snakes so far. this site sed a corn sanke could get up to 101'' long that over 8 feet !!!!!!!!!!!! is that possible?
 
No

Don't believe everything you read. And I'm not even gonna address the heating pad for people.
 
Never put the heat source inside the container. Horizontally under the bottom end or vertically behind the back.
 
Heating pads for people use the EXACT same electrical stuff as heating pads for herps.

In fact, they are safer IMHO.

BUT BUT BUT

I will and would NEVER EVER recommend using a human heating pad without a HIGH QUALITY reptile Thermastat. Which is what I use. HUman heating pads get frikking HOT. And they are NOT meant to be on all day, but turned on and off. This is what the thermastat does.

My human heating pad is turned off and on *about* 4 times per day for about a half hour each in the summer, and on and off about twice in the winter, and it is only run for 8 hours. It is also replaced EVERY SINGLE year. No exceptions.And it has been working amazing, far more efficent and better than any reptile pad I have purchased. Quite a few of my snake buddies have also found this when trying them out.

Be careful, do NOT use it without a high quality thermastat......

bmm
 
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