boaphile plastics rhp any good?

I'm buying a t8 with divider to house my 2 leopard geckos in since I'm completely converting everything to PVC. I'm thinking of buying the 1611 50w from boaphile but I haven't heard anyone talk about them so I have no idea the quality. I use the reptile basics in my bp and I really like them but they just don't come in the size I want. I'll be cutting the divider to slip the 1611 through so that way each Leo has a 8x11 hot spot and I think 50w will be plenty to give me a hot spot of 88.

Can I ask why you're buying such an enormous enclosure for just two geckos? That's a ton of room.

I agree with JoshSloane... ... I'd think you could put two geckos on each side... and just get two small RHP's... one for each side. Now you can have 4 geckos. :)

I haven't heard about boaphile RHPs. I wasn't aware they made their own. Pro products and RBI are the usual suspects for heat panels.

I've had these leos for years and I know them quite well. They were miserable in there 20 gallons so I moved them to 40 gallon and what a difference. They went on a hungry strike until I moved them and wouldn't even let me pick them up. 24hrs after moving into the 40 they were back to normal. I've tried down grading do to the fact that 2 40 gallons take up quite a bit of room and they were miserable again, not eating and no handling so I moved then back and sure enough 24hrs later back to normal. The 40 gal is 36 long 18 wide and each side of the t8 will be 24x24 but I think the added width will make up for the length decrease so they will still be happy I hope. Worse comes to worse if they don't like it then I don't have buy another t8 when my killer bee grows up. But if they do like it I will be buying another in the future to stack right on top of the other. It will actually save me space in my house lol

Wow. Well to each their own. Whatever works for you.

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Originally Posted by JoshSloane

Wow. Well to each their own. Whatever works for you.

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Yeah Ik its crazy. I wish it wasn't that way. Got them as babies with there own 20 gallons and then once they reached adulthood they just weren't having it anymore. After a month and a half of not eating and beIng nippy when trying to handle I tried a bigger cage and everything was back to normal. It is what it is, we are just slaves to are animals lol