Radiant Heat Panels

Good call thanks! I will let you know what goes down.

We use Helix heat panels in our burm's cage, a large over the warm side and a small over the cool side; bought them at LLL Reptile.

BD1, are you using the heat panel on the cool side or warm side? Thanks.

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Originally Posted by chris B

BD1, are you using the heat panel on the cool side or warm side? Thanks.

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Over the hot side, I was going to try and just use that as the heat source without the belly cable but I was afraid to take away the belly heat. I have two thermostats, one for each heat source. I may eventually move it to the cool side or eliminate the belly cable.

Bob at Pro-Products is the real deal. One of the most helpful and friendly people I have had the pleasure of doing business with. He will get you exactly what you need to heat your enclosure. If you tell him the size of your tank he will tell you what size RHP you will need and that alone should be enough to heat your entire cage. They are designed to provide a temp gradient throughout the cage. You set the RHP on one side to provide the basking spot and your ambient temps should all fall into place.

This cage pictured below was built by NERD. At first I was trying to heat the entire cage with a 50 gallon size UTH. I was getting the proper basking temps of about 93 but my cool side was only like 73-75. Seeing I didnt want to clutter my enclosure hanging a light fixture in the cage I decided to go with a RHP. I initially bought it to raise my ambient temps but I have found that it heats the entire enclosure by itself without the UTH. I bought a size smaller than Bob at pro-products suggested because I was only going to use it to warm up the ambient temps and he agreed that if that is all I needed the smaller one should be fine. Turns out it heats the entire tank, I just use the UTH now to provide a little belly heat in his warm side hide. My humidity stays between 50-60 with no misting.

Here is a bad picture of the RHP in tank.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...il152007-1.jpg

Almost forgot.

It's a little wacky ordering off of the Pro-Products website. I would suggest you call Bob and place your order over the phone which is what I did. I ordered it on a Wednesday and I got it Friday.

Thanks BD1 :thumbsup: I think I'll try it on the cool side and see what happens.