Placing Flex watt in a new set up?

Hi all, finished my new caging system and the flexwatt will arrive hopefully tomorrow. I would like to get others suggestions on how to mount the flexwatt as it will be inside of the enclosure.

Here is a link to the cage i built.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...e005_thumb.jpg

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I would like to get my set up working top notch for a good week or so before I decide to move my two BP's in.

Setup looks great! Very nice job :gj: The flexwatt shouldn't be put inside the cage as far as I know (for BPs anyway) :confused: could be wrong

I'm sure that many people would know better than I do but I would question putting flexwatt on the inside unless you made some kind of waterproof container for it. It looks like you could probably mount it on the outside of the pegboard and you would have backheat like a rack. They make waterproof heating panels for the inside of course for mo' money. I would mount flexwatt on the outside of the backwall myself though. You could just tape it in place with aluminum tape.That's a real nice looking cage that you built.

hey everyone im about to bulid myself a rack for my collection but i dont know where i can get this felxwatt system could you help me out?

I ordered mine from reptile basics. you can order it by the foot, but don't forget to also purchase the wire/clip set too.

maybe buy pieces of glass that would fit on the bottom and then put the flexwatt underneath, then silicone all the edges then connect to tstat

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Originally Posted by tjteach14

I ordered mine from reptile basics. you can order it by the foot, but don't forget to also purchase the wire/clip set too.

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Beanfarm.com is good too. Although reptilebasic wires them to how you want it.

I made a cage before and used laminated flooring with silicone around it. works good. another option is a radiant heat panel. I have one in the f/s one if your interested.

What ever option you choose...good luck

Atp and Krazy, thanks for the thoughts. I'm going to look into both ideas and see if I can't arrange something that will work.

If you seal the connections with silicone very well and place the flexwatt under glass or plexiglass/acrylic/etc and seal that up so it's water proof, then it's fine to use inside the cage. Biggest thing is to make sure it's water proof and you'll be fine. I've been doing it this way for years problem free.

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Originally Posted by blueapplepaste

If you seal the connections with silicone very well and place the flexwatt under glass or plexiglass/acrylic/etc and seal that up so it's water proof, then it's fine to use inside the cage. Biggest thing is to make sure it's water proof and you'll be fine. I've been doing it this way for years problem free.

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Thanks for the help... I have some extra plexi around so I'm going to get that method set up when the Flex arrives.

appreciate your time
-Toby