Lining walls of cage with tile?

I'm thinking it'll help reflect and hold in more heat plus not look too bad what's your thoughts and ideas? My tank is in the basement and while it gets to 64 at night in the winter down where the tank is I'm more worried about the speed in which it will drop

What is the "tank" made out of?

Plywood

Tile is not really a good insulation material is it?

I wasn't really looking to insulate more to reflect the heat and kinda hold the heat. So it dissipates slower I was thinking a thick rock in there in the middle of the tank but she will just try to climb and flip I was going to do rocks or slate under her basking spot but that's only a 12x14"

I was thinking of doing egg crate for viewing and Windows to feed I guess I can do plexy glass again it won't be so bad since its above her

Foam Insulation board works pretty good, and can be applied to either the inside or outside, or some of both depending on the difficulty associated with each side. I am in the designing stage of building 'garage' boxes, I plan to use returned/cut no bought (cheap) solid vinyl from Home Depot and Lowe's. That way there will be many fewer seams for water leakage.

Like this http://www.homedepot.com/b/Building-Materials-Insulation-Rigid-Insulation/N-5yc1vZbaxx

It can be cut with a single edge razor blade or any really sharp knife.

I even sorta encased a whole shelf with foam last winter, all on the outside with foam board held in place with blue masking tape, and just re-taped the door after each access event. It worked okay, if not funky.

Even bubble wrap can help slow temp change, but I have not found it actually stopping a temp change, just slow it down.

Thanks that's a good idea for the outside of the tank not sure how safe for inside Incase she tries to nibble it but I'll for sure go check it out

you want to reflect the heat? What about some sort of reflective tiling?

Reflecting tile?

yes heat reflective tile. I don't know if it's animal safe there or not. or perhaps some type of radiant heat panel?

Think less reflecting and more radiating I want the tiles to heat up and help to radiate the heat around the tank instead of being absorbed into the wood

I don't know, our tile floors are the coldest thing in our whole house- no matter what the season or what our thermostat is set at. Seems like you would have to heat them up a lot to hold in the heat.

but in that case you have got the ground to deal with as well

Maybe I'll set up one wall with tile set the other just wood and run the light for 10 min then see after its off which one holds heat the best

I think the tile is a good idea. You are right , it would absorb heat and radiate it slowly & longer.

I've had tile in a enclosed sunroom in Alaska & it did just that.