Well, most of you guys might remember that i had my tank set-up a little differently... It's a normal aquarium style tank but i had it on its side w/ the opening on the front w/ sliding doors... worked really well, cept heating was a little tricky... i had been using a UTH on the bottom & a heat lamp on top of the glass. welllllll.... i had the lamp over on the edge of the tank & while i'm misting the tank i hear this loud POP! ...... thing cracked. Pretty big... not HUGE at first, but she grew & eventually was all the way across to the other side 22 inches away.

anyway, it looked like poo so i just put the tank right-side up & put a little wallpaper thing on the inside so the crack is covered over & Trigger can't get to it (it has a VERRRRY slight edge to it, just enough that i put the wallpaper thing on the inside)... so i removed the UTH, but it on the REAL bottom, wiped down the glass that was covered by the substrate, etc etc etc all the time while Trigger was either around my neck, on my desk in a little bag or in the tank itself.

Poor Trigger's probably wonderin what the heck i was doin to cause such a fuss & what happened to all his floor space, since it literally cut it in 1/2.

maybe in a couple days i'll take pics of the new setup & post em side-by-side w/ the old set-up so you guys can see just how much it reduced his floor area, but for measurment comparison it went from about 30"x22" to 30"x11.5"