How do you keep an albino alligator happy? No this isn’t a joke off of a Laffy Taffy wrapper, I’m talking about the albino alligator at the World Wildlife Zoo in Litchfield Park, AZ. Their albino alligator habitat needed a bit of heating up and guess who they called? If you said Warmzone, you are right! The World Wildlife Zoo has a reputation for building impeccable habitats for the animals they house, and Warmzone was happy to help out.

  
Radiant heating isn’t just for people anymore! Our clients are constantly coming up with new ways to use our products that have never been done before. Radiant heating has already made it big in the home heating industry, and now serves animal home (habitat) heating. Alligators get cold too after all!

In order to entice the alligator to spend most of its time near the visitor viewing window, Zoo experts embedded twenty square feet of Danfoss TX radiant heating cable into the bottom of the albino alligator habitat. The natural habitat for albino alligators are primarily freshwater swamps and marshes located in the southeastern region of the United States. The heating cables helped imitate the natural environment found in much of Florida.

The Danfoss TX cables were embedded in a slab of cement at the bottom of the aquatic portion of the habitat. The cement is used to retain water and is also a good conductive material for radiant heat cables. The TX cables were originally meant for indoor underfloor heating projects. A standard TX cable installation involves embedding the cables in a thin layer of thin-set, which is very similar to the process used by the experts at World Wildlife Zoo.

The complete heating system installed by the World Wildlife Zoo runs in conjunction with a TRF-115 indoor/outdoor floor and slab sensor. The sensor ensures the perfect temperature all the time, without the need of manual operation by zoo attendants and maintenance crews. Now all they have to worry about is keeping the habitat clean! The heating system will take care of itself.

Albino alligators do not survive long in the wild. Their coloring makes it hard to hide from predators, making them prime targets for an afternoon snack. The white coloring is in fact a rare genetic condition that causes them to be born with a lack of pigment. Not only does this cause abnormal coloring, but makes them highly susceptible to the sun’s UV rays. As a result, albino alligators are extremely rare in the wild and the only place you’ll be able to see these animals are places like the World Wildlife Zoo.