heat panels and a 4x2x4 cage? how to heat?

[toddnbecka]

Originally Posted by Sasha2

I do have several 100 watt CHE laying around.But they dont look as nice as a heat panel would.
Ive been perusing the Aussie python forum site in their diy section(plenty of carpet python cages) and they have some awesome builds. But they seem to use alot of heat cable under or over the main basking sites.

How nice the CHE looks depends on the housing you use to enclose it to protect the snake. It would be fairly simple to make a good-looking housing for the CHE, with an ultratherm heat mat on the bottom.

[Sasha2]

Originally Posted by toddnbecka

How nice the CHE looks depends on the housing you use to enclose it to protect the snake. It would be fairly simple to make a good-looking housing for the CHE, with an ultratherm heat mat on the bottom.

This is the direction Im going at the moment since I already have all this. Not the ultratherm but plenty of flexwatt that hubby has soldered up for me.I also already have an extra thermostat(cheap hydrofarm but they work fine).

I already have the 1/4 inch plexiglass as well. So this build is going to be less then a hundred dollars all total..
I do have to buy some linoleum or tile for the bottom.

Then next year I can think about upgrading the boas.

As for sealing, I will either use a low voc latex house paint or waterbased polyurathane or both.