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Heating the room?

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  • 12-31-2012, 03:09 PM
    Kodieh
    Heating the room?
    How do those of you who do, heat the entire room?

    I might be able to fashion our spare room into "my room", and let my wife make the bedroom however she wishes and with all of the animals I'm aquiring recently, I was wondering how you WOULD heat the entire room? Just, a space heater with thermostat and let the flexwatt do it's job?
  • 12-31-2012, 03:14 PM
    West Coast Jungle
    Re: Heating the room?
    I have an oil filled heater controlled by a thermostat?
  • 12-31-2012, 03:23 PM
    3skulls
    Yeah, oil filled heater on a t-stat.
  • 12-31-2012, 04:45 PM
    PitOnTheProwl
    Oil filled heater X3 LOL
  • 12-31-2012, 04:46 PM
    dragonboy4578
    I have tried a few different heater. I have use a ceramic heater, one of the base board stand alone heaters, and what I currently use, an oil filled heater on a thermostat. I have found that for me the oil filled works the best.
  • 12-31-2012, 04:48 PM
    PitOnTheProwl
    :rofl:
    You are in the center and just got answers from every side of the US
    :rofl:
  • 12-31-2012, 06:53 PM
    meowmeowkazoo
    What type of oil heaters and thermostats do you guys use?
  • 12-31-2012, 07:20 PM
    PitOnTheProwl
  • 12-31-2012, 08:34 PM
    Kodieh
    Awesome, do you just heat the room and not the cages, or do you have heat tape or the like to create a hot spot?

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  • 12-31-2012, 09:21 PM
    3skulls
    Heat tape on each cage and tub.
  • 12-31-2012, 09:28 PM
    PitOnTheProwl
    Heat the room to 80 and flex-a-watt with thermostats to heat everyone that needs it.
  • 12-31-2012, 09:33 PM
    I-KandyReptiles
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl View Post

    I can get that in Canada. What thermostat do you use on it?
  • 12-31-2012, 09:48 PM
    sorraia
    I am currently using a space heater with a built in thermostat. Also have UTH on the tubs.
  • 12-31-2012, 09:51 PM
    PitOnTheProwl
    Re: Heating the room?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Bobbafett View Post
    I can get that in Canada. What thermostat do you use on it?

    I don't, it has a built in that I am using right now
  • 12-31-2012, 09:55 PM
    I-KandyReptiles
    Where do you place it? I have a similar one
  • 12-31-2012, 09:55 PM
    Kodieh
    That's good information, I'll have to save the Lowes link to my Firefox when I get home.

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  • 12-31-2012, 09:58 PM
    3skulls
    I'm using this one.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000E7...sr=8-1&pi=SL75

    Has a night time drop. Might have to play around a bit to get it right. Depending where you place it.

    It's so cold right now, my heater just stays on :(
    But the racks are perfect temps.
  • 12-31-2012, 10:02 PM
    PitOnTheProwl
    Depends on the temp of the racks but most of the time its almost in the middle of the room
  • 01-01-2013, 05:26 PM
    Badgemash
    I use a $40 Lasko one from amazon, built in thermostat, ceramic, with auto shutoff if it tips over. I have it set to 80, the rest of the house is at 70, it doesn't seem to have any trouble holding that temp.
  • 01-01-2013, 05:48 PM
    Kodieh
    The only obvious reservation I have is all the home fires that have been on the news recently. Is that from people using coil heaters and not ceramic?

    I like the sound of the auto shut off if tipped over, that would relieve some of the above fear.

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