[Jeepfreak81]

Hello all! So I've been looking around on here and Geckoforums.net to get some ideas for a new Leo enclosure. At first I was going to build a cabinet to house 2 20g long tanks, then I was thinking of turning some tanks on thier side. I think what I REALLY would like to do is build a custom enclosure that could house 4 geckos (seperate cages).

There is one thing I'm having a hard time figuring out and that's how to heat the enclosures. The substrate will be tile and will need to sit on something, presumably wood (plywood?). Now, how am I going to heat it? My only though is to use heat tape and place it on the wood, add a small layer of sand, then the tile.

Haven't chosen a size yet but probably something like a 28X18 for each enclosure.

Anyone have some ideas, pictures, etc to help me out! I've seen lots of these setups but nobody mentions how they heat it from underneath.

thanks!

[Harley_Davidson]

I just put my slate tile directly on top of the UTH/heat tape

[Tokayy]

You should be fine with using a UTH heater as well as a bulb that keeps up heat and day light, like a sun glo bulb or something. This should provide enough heat within the enclosure.

[Jeepfreak81]

Not planning to use overhead heat as there will be no room, but air temps will be in the 70's with no problems anyhow. Was mostly worried about getting good belly heat. Now i just have to figure out how to get the heat tape set into the enclosure i build. The tape itself will be easy, its the connection i'm worried about

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