I have a pre-assembled rack from reptile basics because I'm lazy. I bought it a year and a half ago. It came with THG heat tape preinstalled and set up which I connected to a Herpestat Intro+ set to 101 degrees since I have a drafty studio apartment. Well yesterday I came home to a smelly apartment, and I discovered that the heat tape was burning a hole in the bottom of one of my tubs. Luckily my snake was fine, but upon further examination the heat tape was completely ruined. It's really warped and there are huge holes in it. The probe was still taped to the heat tape, with packing tape by the wire, and read 101, and a second reading with a temp gun also read 101 degrees. That's not hot enough to melt plastic at all. What the heck happened? I'm kind of afraid of heat tape now :(
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