Yet another project

[adamanteus]

Visible means accessible.

I know, I know.... it's illogical, I just hate visible wires.... a touch of OCD on my part, perhaps?

[Stefan-A]

Perhaps, James.

[infernalis]

a touch of OCD on my part, perhaps?

Touch??

[reptile3]

very nice Stefan!!

[reptile3]

I know, I know.... it's illogical, I just hate visible wires.... a touch of OCD on my part, perhaps?

James I am the same way... OCD is my life!! All my viv's -wires are hiding!!!

[kurtnagel]

Definitely overhead heating. The lighting solution I have, is going to create a "basking spot" almost as long as the enclosure, almost as wide as the hole in the top and starting at a height of about 30 cm. A branch or something similar would bring the inhabitants close enough to bask.

What does that solution look like? Are you thinking that you need more penetration of the heat from above? If you have a basking solution that covers the length of the enclosure, will you have room for additional fixtures to provide more heat? I'm thinking IR, but you've got me confused with the "basking spot" and the height is problematic. That is why I was thinking a heating pad from beneath.

[kurtnagel]

The front of the enclosure is going to be a bit problematic as well.

Will that be how you access the viv also? Something similar to the other enclosure in your pic?

[Stefan-A]

What does that solution look like? Are you thinking that you need more penetration of the heat from above? If you have a basking solution that covers the length of the enclosure, will you have room for additional fixtures to provide more heat? I'm thinking IR, but you've got me confused with the "basking spot" and the height is problematic. That is why I was thinking a heating pad from beneath.

No, I'm thinking that I'd like to have a distinct basking spot and not one provided by the aquarium lamp I'm going to use to provide light. I did something like this by accident a couple of years ago and the area just below the lamp turned out to be a more popular basking spot, than the area below the actual heat lamp.

If you can see the snake in the picture below, that's where they'd usually sit.



I'd also like to keep everything electric outside the enclosure and I'd like to avoid any extra holes.

Will that be how you access the viv also? Something similar to the other enclosure in your pic?

It will be how I access it. The idea I was going to try this time, was the one in the 3D models above. I'm having second thoughts about the low and wide pane of glass at the bottom.

[jitami]

I've wondered this a few times and the above picture illustrates it well. Do you think the snakes are confused by the artificial, and not warm, light? Do they expect it to be warm there and stay there thinking it's the "sunniest" spot? I use the IR heat lamps so I can use the same fixture day and night and sometimes the snakes will be right under the heat, but sometimes they'll be curled up wherever it's brightest, but not actually warmest. Dunno?

Edited to add: for what it's worth the c/b babies tend to find the heat more reliably than the w/c adults.

[Stefan-A]

I thought about that possibility as well, but I measured the temperature in that spot and found that it was very close to what it was under the heat lamp.

Actually, I think that picture shows an older configuration. I did raise the branches by about 10 cm, so that they would get closer.