Re: repeated UTH failure on tubs. What am I...
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Originally Posted by
BAMReptiles
well seeing as how they all stay pretty contant id say its a safe bet it works, heat mats im pretty sure are designed to be used without a thermostat. im not talking about some flexwatt or something. regardless, the point was ,mine have never gotten hot enough to melt through a tub, whereas the ops did.
Just be careful... UTH's need to be regulated somehow. I plugged in my Zoo-Med 10-20 gallon heater directly just to see how hot it got on it's own and it got over 135 degrees in less then a few hours.
Re: repeated UTH failure on tubs. What am I...
I have a Helix thermostat. It has to go through a power-regulating strip because I live in a house with 1940s wiring; when we first moved in here, the Helix would short everything on that fuse out. I've never before had a problem with it plugged into the strip.
I also have additional, separate thermometers in the tubs to monitor the heat. I monitor the ambient temp around the snakes as well as inside the tubs. I live in So Cal, and the temp in our house in the summer can get pretty high, so the thermometers have an an alarm that goes off if the temp hits over 95 either ambiently or in the enclosures; that way, I can adjust the thermostat. (For examples, when the ambient temp is 95, I can drop the thermostat to 75 and still maintain a nice 85 in the tanks.)
I have air flow both under and around the tubs and UTHs.
The only difference between my set-up now and my set-up 7 weeks ago is the fact that my snakes are in plastic tubs as opposed to glass tanks. I switched because tubs seem so much easier, but this has become such a pain that I'm thinking of just going back to tanks.
