Hey, so I'm new to this forum, and fairly new to owning snakes, but I've been waiting for a couple years now to get a rosy boa, doing research, and saving up and such.
As I've been looking around I've seen a lot of people using plastic tubs to house snakes and I wanted to get opinions on them, and I have a couple of questions. It would definitely be easier for me to use a tub, and would save a lot of money so I could get other better equipment.
So my first question is how you get good heating in a tub. I'm not sure how you would set up a heat lamp with one (since it's not a screen top)? I could always use a heat pad underneath but I wasn't sure if just the heat pad was enough? What other ways could I heat a tub?
My next question is the lid, is a tub lid secure enough that they can't get out? Any tips on that?
And my last question isn't really related to tubs, but I had to ask, I breed cavies and ALWAYS have pine shavings on hand. Are wood shavings an ok substrate for snakes or will it damage their scales?
Thanks so much to anyone who answer! Please let me know if there is any problems with tubs vs tanks, or things I should know about, I want to give my future snake a comfortable habitat
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