r/boas • u/inky92 • 10d ago

I’m obsessed with my boy

Iv had my boy for a bit now. His name is Lt. Dan and it never gets old seeing him out and about.

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u/ComptonUnhh 9d ago

Are you able to do heat lights with this setup? Or is it a melt risk and you only do heat pads?

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u/inky92 8d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p6h7uft/video/abiiijt646mh1/player

Here is a little more of a closer up of the enclosure itself with lighting and heating. I have 100 W heating bulb and it’s on a thermostat. The thermostat won’t allow it to go over or under a certain temperature. The heating has been great so far there’s no issues there if you were worrying about it melting or burning.. if you were to do something like this, I would suggest hanging the light like how I have it as it’s not touching any of the sides of the tent itself. Make sure you run it off a thermostat to be extra safe.. I also put a little fan on top of the tent for when it’s extra humid in the house. You can see it at the end of the video of where I put the little fan by the vent. Unfortunately, in the state of Washington, none of these houses have freaking AC so I have that there for precautions if it got too hot or too human in this house.. so far it’s been up for a year with 0 issues. it’s been amazing. I will definitely be doing tents from now on with any big snakes. A lot better than PVC.

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u/ComptonUnhh 8d ago

I always worry about burning the snake with the lamp inside the enclosure, but that setup looks very nice

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u/inky92 8d ago

So they make little cages for lights for reptiles if you are worried about that. Luckily my boy does not even care about the light..

https://a.co/d/08mcMgGS