Best Ways to Heat a Rack?

Hi again everyone!

I'm just curious about the best ways to heat a rack, and how one goes about monitoring this? I know a thermostat is the way to monitor, but how does that work exactly? How do you monitor every tub to make sure the heats/humidity are right in every one?

This may be a silly question, but I'm still in tanks and would like to eventually go to tubs in a rack. Tanks are a pain to keep heat/humidity correct. I also intend to vastly expand my collection once I'm out of college, so it'll be necessary. I'm just unsure of how the whole rack process works. And I know everyone keeps saying racks and tubs are way better. So I finally decided just to ask. :)

Thanks in advance everybody! :D

From my understanding, as long as the drawers in the rack are all the same size and setup, you monitor one drawer with the thermostat and let it adjust accordingly.

Flexwatt on a thermostat.
different lengths of heat tape will be different temps but they'll generally be around the same.

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Originally Posted by ShelbyCraig

Flexwatt on a thermostat.
different lengths of heat tape will be different temps but they'll generally be around the same.

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If you hook up a piece of 3" heat tape to the same thermostat as an 11" piece of flexwatt the temps will be drastically different. I personally use belly and back heat since I don't have a heated room. I use back heat to raise the ambient temps and belly heat to provide the hot spots. Back and belly heat both get a dedicated thermostat.

Edit: I forgot to add in the placement of the thermostat probe is how the correct temperature is reached. I always place my probe directly on the heat tape in the most central location. So if I'm setting up a rack with 5 tubs I will place the back heat probe directly on the heat tape next to the 3rd tub.