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Heating PVC cages
Hi all,
I just set up a 4x2x1 high PVC cage (made by Powerhouse Displays Inc.) for my male BP.
It looks awesome and he loves it *EXCEPT* I cannot get the stupid thing to warm up. It holds humidity awesome (which was an issue in his previous tub seeing as I had to rig up a heat lamp to get the ambient air temps right) but its cold. Normally I set his warm side to about 90-95 (with thermostat) and aim for a cool/ambient temp of 80. Ambient air temps nonwithstanding (I'll be setting up a space heater with thermostat in the room) the UTH I'm using just does NOT penetrate the material enough. Even with only a single layer of paper towel the heat is not adequate at all--maybe hitting 75 on top of the paper towel.
What I'd really like to do is set up some ceramic tiles to cover the floorspace but am wondering how I'd achieve belly heat with that since the UTH (and its the biggest one zoo med makes) is struggling to begin with.
So the question is---could I rig some heat cable etc on the inside floor of the cage (hooked up to a thermostat of course) and then place ceramic tiles on top of that?
If not what would you guys recommend?
For now I'm putting him back in the tub but ideally would like to fix this.
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