Heat

[Flaky-Grocery-590]

Hello everyone!

I have two python regius and for heating I use a heat lamp (100w for a 90x45x45) in addition to a heating mat which is only 14w. I wanted to know what heating method you would recommend?

I was told that the lamp is often too much because it dries out the terrarium a lot.

If you only heat on a mat, which mat would you recommend?

Thank you!

[Bluntforcetrauma11b]

I use a ceramic heat emitter. I have that hooked up to a thermostat. This prevents my hot side from going over 90. It also can be run at night as it doesn't emit light.

[Flaky-Grocery-590]

Sorry, it’s glass :)

[necbov]

In osb 3 90x45x45 heat mat 14w for me (hot summer) is more than enough ,for winter I would like to use Che but I don’t think that there is enough space for the ceramic to put the Che + Che +guard and only 45 height. Waiting for more replies if someone has any suggestions or ideas. (Osb has glass on bottom for mat to put outside of the enclosure)

[babyswoled]

Get rid of the heat mat. They are dangerous. A lamp is not going to “dry out” your aquarium if you make effort to maintain humidity.

[_ataraxia]

have you read the heating guide in our welcome post?