New 41 qt rack?!?!

So I am building a new rack with 41qt sterlite tubs and I have one question. Is 4 inch heat tape enough for the hot spot with 41qt(it will be belly heat tape). I've seen people use two strips of 3 inch heat tape and people use 11 inch heat tape with 41qt. Any suggestions would be great! It is for ball pythons by the way.

I used 11" in mine. 4" for my 28qt rack. Seems to work good for me.

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I use 3' on all my 41 qt Animal Plastics racks, I never had any problems .

I'd use 11"

I'd suggest 11'. There is a new 6' heat tape out that is also great for 41 qts.

Where can you get the 6" heat tape. And 11" will cover about 1/3 of the tub no one thinks that'll be to big of a hot spot?!?!

I plan on using 12" THG tape in my 41 qt because it's going to be in a 70 degree room. I want to make sure there's a large surface area where the heat is coming from to provide at least a 75 degree cool side. The tubs are 35" long so it does make up about a 1/3 of the floor space.

I use 4" for my 41 qt racks. It works pretty well. Hot side stays about 89 and cool side about 80.

I prefer a 13" piece of 11" Flexwatt per shelf in my 41qts I build. Big snakes need bigger hot spots. It's simply a matter of thermal transfer. A small piece might stay a temp but it can't raise the ambient temp of a large mass as easily as larger surface area.

Regards,

B

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Originally Posted by Alligatorbait

Where can you get the 6" heat tape. And 11" will cover about 1/3 of the tub no one thinks that'll be to big of a hot spot?!?!

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I have my 41s on 4" Heat Tape, however my room stays at 80 degrees. As other people have stated, it all just depends on what your room set up is like. If the room your reptiles are in is 75-80 you probably only need a 4" piece. However if your room is on the cooler side you will want the larger piece since you have more of the tub to make warm. Hopefully that makes sense. :D