Cutting Energy Corners...

[NetBSD]

that's what I use too and we've had ours for at least five years
we had another little electric one with a fan and it became unreliable after two years

yeah the ones with the fans always quit on me, i used the above oil heaters in my old house and they worked great. the oil inside really helps keep down the cost cause it holds the heat for a long time

[infernalis]

Picked this one up last April on sale for $20.

Like buying Christmas lights in January........

[brain]

Okay, I've figured that it would cost less to heat my room via one of those mini heaters. Get it to 82 F, and leave it there with fluorescent lights on the garters. Are there any downfalls to the mini heaters?
Like gases emitted or anything?

I have three of them in the houses and they save so much.
Right, Wayne, they are an oil sealed radiant system.
1 is in the guest house for the outside cats … don’t ask.
1 in our bedroom as a just in case.
And one 24/7 in my snake room keeping the ambient temp around 89 deg. in the summer.
If you know over the ones I have they shut off and no fuses what so ever.

[Loren]

yep, I use one of these too. Mine is on a timer just for night time(make sure its rated high enough for the heater) when the temps are mildly cool and on full time when its real cold, and off the rest of the year.
I use a digital thermoter with a min/max memory, which takes readings at eye level and also from a probe near the floor, so I can check and adjust temp and duration as needed. In the winter, I shoot for no cooler than 72 night and no warmer than 85 day, personally, with an average of 80-82 being great.
I also have a 20 inch fan on low full time, pointing downward across the room from near the ceiling, and 2 small fans on the floor pointing in random directions, to keep the temps stable throughout the room. Care is take that no fans point directly at any cages. My room is 9' x 15'.

[infernalis]

Have a nice ceiling fan already there, have it on low to push the warm air down.

I manually adjust mine, There are temp strips on many of my tanks, a probe thermometer with humidity meter, and it keeps the 18 x 24 room comfy.

The heating baseboard runs along the back of Chompers enclosure, and the snake tower is against the same wall.

I could use a timer, but I don't mind fiddling with controls.

[brain]

A ceiling fan to circulate the upper temp down?
I have these in my livingroom and den but haven’t thought of putting one in my herp room … good one Loren TY I’ll do that.

Just as soon as this DA@# SNOW STOPS.

I hate it 3 more inches last night island my !@#

[infernalis]

Many of my snakes like to stare up at the fan when it is on too. The motion gets attention.

[Loren]

I dont have a "ceiling fan", just a circular fan near the ceiling, on one end of the room. An actual ceiling fan wouldnt have enough clearance to keep from chopping me in the head when I am getting into my cages on the top shelves.

[infernalis]

When I got this house it had a "spare" living room, the ceiling fan was already there.

and Loren, I have clipped my head just last week

I was up on a stool, getting my corn snake out, when I felt a sharp "thump thump thump" on top of my head.

I am 6 foot 4, lucky to have 8 foot ceilings.

[Loren]

My room (soory the pic is crooked)