please help me quickly!!

I dropped 400 bones on a new tank and accesories for my growing ball today. so I am sticking the new uth to the tank and accidently stick it to plastic parts of the tank. So I decide its a good idea to trim the uth with scissors.

I plugged it in and to my surprise it doesnt work(sarcasm)

so I went out and bought a new one but I can unstick the other one. the lady at the store suggested not to stick it to the tank but place it on the table underneath the tank that way if I have to move it , its no big deal.

so I am doing that now, is that the wrong thing to do? help!!

I don't know about the new UTH but in the caging forum there is a sticky on how to get the old one off!
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=66262

Thats the link ^.^

Foil tape is a good way to stick it on so it is removable later.

so would it be ok to just stick it over top the old one or no?

honestly when i took the uth heater off my glass tanks i just pulled them off no problem.... covered them with wax paper and they were good to go. can take the wax paper off and stick it to another tank if i wanted.

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Originally Posted by armbarvictim

so would it be ok to just stick it over top the old one or no?

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Remove the old one or put the new one on the other side of the tank.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you spend $400 on a bp enclosure?

lol the enclosure it self was 240, plus uth, big bag of bedding , new hide, 2 plants, big center cave/climbing thingy, and now a new uth, after all that it was 400 bones :(, I will post pictures in here if you like, its a very nice enclosure.

I got impatient with the old uth so I got an exacto and sliced of the cord and about 2 inches down from that straight across, so its just the flat pad on the tank and I properly stuck the new one over top, I mean I dont see it being a fire hazard or nothing so we'll see here.

Dont recommend sticking uth to the tank. when you buy them just leave the paper on it or take it off and cover with wax paper or foil tape and then tape them to the tank so you can remove them later like het.pied said earlier will make things much easier if you ever want to switch enclosures again

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...ablos_tank.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/diablo_3.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/diablo_2.jpg

Yeah thats my new cage in case anyone wanted to see it lol

Wow, that is a very nice setup indeed, but in my mine $400 is about housing for 50 snakes :) . Good choices! But i would definitely either stick wax paper, or leave the wax paper that's already on the sticky part of the uth on, so you can move it anywhere you want to. That's what i did and now i actually have about an inch of space in between the zoomed and the vision cage so its a perfect 94 in the cage when its 118 on the pad.