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[electrycmonk]

I was figuring it would be akin to the floor heating systems around these days.

 

[Derangedplanet]

I was figuring it would be akin to the floor heating systems around these days.

I just worry it would get significantly hotter being suffocated with the shavings on top and such. I think you'd be better either bringing her and the eggs in inside a dog kennel or finding a way to give her a heat lamp.

 

[Derangedplanet]

Just my guess of course. But heat things like that tend not to do great suffocated

 

[electrycmonk]

Well I don't need stable If I set her up a cage with a heat lamp. Just over 50 at night to be safe. Shed kill me if I left her in the indoor cage for 2.5 more months lmao. She's been without her grazing since November. So I imagine she's about done with crap

Just over 50° at night will likely be late March to early April this year... They are forcasting avg high of 60° in March and lots of rain & T-storms

 

[Goatlover223]

Yer timely.... Here it is....
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I'm thawing out my fingers currently as I'm about to go back outside to pull the wheels of the truck for tomorrow's warranty brake pad replacement..... "Not so timely" eh?

It’s pretty nice little brooder and I get what you mean lol by thawing out I had to put over 25,000 rescue horses and 60,000 other rescues in different barns with lots of heat today so yeah I was freezing I’ve just finished putting the animals up.

 

[electrycmonk]

Well I don't need stable If I set her up a cage with a heat lamp. Just over 50 at night to be safe. Shed kill me if I left her in the indoor cage for 2.5 more months lmao. She's been without her grazing since November. So I imagine she's about done with crap

Oh btw the article on how to build a fodder ladder is a very cheap and cool project for green food for her to nibble on inside too. (Chickens love it too)

 

[Derangedplanet]

No. I knew you had her/him inside. This was something to let her/him crawl ONTO in the house.

Oh belly heat is actually infamously awful for most reptiles. Very few do well with it. Overhead heat is definitely the ideal for most tort species. Theres been a lot of changes in best care over the past 10 years so it's been nice relearning to do stuff I already knew how to but learned wrong.

 

[Derangedplanet]

Just over 50° at night will likely be late March to early April this year... They are forcasting avg high of 60° in March and lots of rain & T-storms

Guess she'll be going out in spurts. Last year late winter over there she got to spend 4-5 days a week out but came in most nights. So sounds like thatll be the nature of the beast this year too.

 

[electrycmonk]

Oh belly heat is actually infamously awful for most reptiles. Very few do well with it. Overhead heat is definitely the ideal for most tort species. Theres been a lot of changes in best care over the past 10 years so it's been nice relearning to do stuff I already knew how to but learned wrong.

I'm sorry to suggest the belly heat this way... I use it for therapy with my special needs clients... It's kinda neat how you can get the sock to "just" lukewarm and it holds the warmth for a nice amount but, without over sensitization. Given that you already had heat lamps in abundance, giving a floor surface that's not a heatsink at something close to 55-60° like tile flooring.... The physics of thermal dynamics kinda allows for a brain like mine to see a ricesock like a carpeted floor.... Without the worry if cleanup from excrement on carpeting..... (Shrugs) Does this make better sense now that I've given a bit more detail to my "halfbaked" idea?

 

[Derangedplanet]

I'm sorry to suggest the belly heat this way... I use it for therapy with my special needs clients... It's kinda neat how you can get the sock to "just" lukewarm and it holds the warmth for a nice amount but, without over sensitization. Given that you already had heat lamps in abundance, giving a floor surface that's not a heatsink at something close to 55-60° like tile flooring.... The physics of thermal dynamics kinda allows for a brain like mine to see a ricesock like a carpeted floor.... Without the worry if cleanup from excrement on carpeting..... (Shrugs) Does this make better sense now that I've given a bit more detail to my "halfbaked" idea?

Ohhhhh yeah it totally does. She's in a plastic Christmas tree box atm because her usual home is packed. But we usually have dirt in her home so it can absorb the heat of the lights into the night. She's in the room with my boa and like 40 geckos atm tho. Usually she's in the living room or garage. So the whole room is kept 74 degrees in the winter so she's far from suffering in there. But the rice is a neat idea. We used to use tile and sand/soil mix for our bearded dragon because it retainedheat better and lowered heating lamp costs. Also because he liked a semi warm belly. But he has long since passed due to me trustinf the wrong people to look after him :/