Background heat for shed

[EmmaG]

I am hoping for some advice please- my 11 year old Hermanns are going to be living outside rather than in a tortoise table in colder weather (except when hibernating) from this year. They have an outdoor run, green house and insulated house within a shed. They will have a basking/ UV lamp during the day but I want to be able to keep a suitable background temperature for them when it's colder in their house- would people recommend a bar heater or ceramic heat emitter?

[Gordon]

I would go for the tubular heater as big as possible and set it up with a stat to control the heat.

[burnt toast]

I have never used ceramics but did speak to a friend who changed to tubulars because she said the ceramic only heated the corner it was in where as the tubular had heat over a wider area.

[EmmaG]

Thank you both, tubular it is.

[CherryBrandy]

Originally Posted by burnt toast

I have never used ceramics but did speak to a friend who changed to tubulars because she said the ceramic only heated the corner it was in where as the tubular had heat over a wider area.

Lynn I would concur with this. Ceramics are terrific but focused heat.


Reckon tube is best as Gordon says, but don't forget it will be lite up at night so ceramics could play a good role at night when temps drop too. CB