I love my wonderful collection of snakeys, lizards, dragons, etc. but I have always had this niggling worry about electricity costs in the back of my mind.
Sure enough I had a letter from my electricity company yesterday, saying that they will increase my monthly standing order by £20 ($39). That's a heck of a lot of money.

My supplier is Ecotricity, so at least the energy is produced via wind turbines but I still worry about my hobby having an adverse effect on the environment.

Is there any way that I can keep the energy usage lower? My garters only have heat mats, the babies get natural light, the adult enclosure is lit with a low energy bulb, but of course apart from the python, who has no artificial light, every other reptile has heat mats, thermostats, UV lights and basking spots. Eeek.