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Ceramic heat emitter?

I‘m thinking of buying one for my hedgehog, but my question is. Since my cage setup is two sterlite bins connected with a tube, do you think the emitter would be able to heat both bins?

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Heating pet cages is interesting question. Claire's rabbits were banished to the garage, which gets quite cool at night in the winter. We got a small heater with a fan and a thermostat, put walls near the cage, and the heater near the cage. The fan would blow warm air towards the bunnies, keeping that corner of the garage warm. This is better, I think, than a purely radiative (no fan ceramic) type, because the ceramic heater will warm the sterite contaner it is pointed to. This will not be efficient, and could be a fire hazard. Put it on a GFI circuit for safety. I also put a light on a timer so it was on during the day. Turn the thermostat relatively cool. You can also put a cheap thermometer there. Rodents are supposedly ok to near freezing temps, but we kept their cages above 55°F, since they can't snuggle in their insulating dens the way they do in the wild. Our bunny cage is open, so air can circulate. Air circulation is probably not good inside your sterite containers, but if you keep the outside reasonably warm, the inside will be too. Important to keep cages out of the wind if you want to keep them warm.
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