Ongoing Experiment: Unregulated ZooMed UTH, Heat yield and transfer

I've made a blog for my new little experiment. Using this page in the link below, I will be recording all details of the project, including: photographs, a hypothesis, summaries, outcomes, and data.

http://unregulatedzoo-med.tumblr.com/

Feel free to criticize, suggest, ask a question, or try this experiment on your own.

Is Exo terra is next? :D

I can't wait to hear about your findings! :gj:

I did something similar for a shorter amount of time and the UTH ended up hitting 118.

Looking forward to seeing your results.

Is it a really a mystery that almost all uth's get too hot to use unregulated?

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Is it a really a mystery that almost all uth's get too hot to use unregulated?

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To some people apparently it is...

see this thread: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...irectly-to-tub

I did a similar experience with the small Exo-Terra UTH. After a few hours it was reading over 138 degrees.

I still use that heat pad.. With a thermostat. :gj:

It might be interesting to see what a ultratherm would do with a glass tank unregulated. They rarely get over 110º maxed out. I would still NEVER suggest the use of any under tank system with out a t-stat but it would be interesting to see how low it produces.

Hey Aaron the advise was on a tub too boot... they heat faster and transfer more heat than glass tanks!