Why don't we do something about reptile products manufacturers lying?

i just use a hair water sprayer for the tough skin on my reptiles, i agree they have some nice and useful stuff bt mostly its just crap. the heatrock is the worst, it can really hurt the snakes and they can try to use the cord as a way to get out. im trying to upgrade my area for my snakes bt i have no way to keep the heat up for them without over heating myself..lol so i found the heat pad ok as long as i keep an eye on it to make sure it dont over heat or anything

I've never heard of heat rocks being a 'great option' for any species. Can you name one?

Faulty thermometers need to be pulled because they do not work as advertised, so there's a REAL case to be made, there.

The solution to the UTHs is to convince them to simply include a rheostat (at the VERY least) as part of the UTH, not as a separate unit. Human heating pads have them, why shouldn't a reptile heat pad? They aren't very expensive.

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Originally Posted by olstyn

That begs the question of which corners got cut in the design and production of that thermostat that enables it to be 1/4 of the price of the "good" ones that are commonly used by reptile keepers. Is it an on/off only, rather than a proportional? Is it failure-prone? What's the catch?

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i use hydrofarm with no issue works just fine for me. it does turn off when the set temp is reached, it will also shut off if it reaches 110F or more. as for a catch i dont think there is one this thermostat is used for growing plants not for reptiles but it seems to work just fine.