UTH Question?!?!

Im looking at getting another snake, and I was wondering if you can safely use a UTH with a plastic tub? (regulated with thermostat)

I have a reptitherm 500 and a 10-20 gal UTH on a 20 gal long glass tank, and im adding a large sterilite tub with a 10-20 gal UTH identical to the glass one.

2 questions

1.) will this melt the tub if its regulated between 89-95 degrees

2.) can you use one reptitherm 500 to accurately manage 2 identical UTHs or should he get another thermostat. (obviously the glass/plastic and thickness will change things a bit, but both will have thermometers and will be regulated accordingly.)

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Edbean

Im looking at getting another snake, and I was wondering if you can safely use a UTH with a plastic tub? (regulated with thermostat)

I have a reptitherm 500 and a 10-20 gal UTH on a 20 gal long glass tank, and im adding a large sterilite tub with a 10-20 gal UTH identical to the glass one.

2 questions

1.) will this melt the tub if its regulated between 89-95 degrees

2.) can you use one reptitherm 500 to accurately manage 2 identical UTHs or should he get another thermostat. (obviously the glass/plastic and thickness will change things a bit, but both will have thermometers and will be regulated accordingly.)

Thanks!

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not a problem at all, I got a bunch of bins with zoomed uth's. As long as you got that themostat your good :gj:

also, not sure what a reptitherm is capable of handling, but two should deffinately not be a problem. I got 6 on one of those thermostats from petco and its been working great.

It wont melt the tub, as for the other question Im not sure, but look at the watt consumption of each UTH and add it up, if it doesnt pass the max watt rating of the thermostat it should be ok... theoricaly...

Well it would be 2 (10-20gal) UTHs just one on glass and one on plastic w/ newspaper substrate.

Thanks for the quick answers! Im sooooo excited to have 2 so I can offset feed them and always have one to chill with lol.

Is it the reptiTEMP 500r?

If both heat pads are identical, you can run them both on the same thermostat.

I am pretty sure the 500R has two plug ins. As long as the uth are the same model/size it should be fine.

Why not use 2 tubs and ditch that tank?? Less space taken up and easier cleaning

Yes it is :) thanks for the info!