heating, flexwatt vs ZooMed

[bigboyslims]

To heat a AP T-3, what is better and why? Flexwatt or a ZooMed UTH. I will be heating the belly of thew cage.


Is the cable they offer any good?

[jglass38]

They are both similar (flexwatt and zoomed). I have had up and down experiences with heat cable, but that was before I knew how to use it (also had a defective one). The deal with the heat cable is it takes a lot more time to heat up and stabilize but once it does its pretty good. Flexwatt for APs is not a great idea because they are so thick and solid. Go with the heat cable and a good tstat.

[jotay]

A proportional t-stat is what Animal Plastics recommends w/ their heat cable.
I have it installed in my ap cage w/ a Helix and it works great!
Don't have much experience w/ flexwatt but I would have to agree it seems the bottom of ap cages would be kinda thick for it.

[bigboyslims]

Do you need to heat the other side of the cage? If so, with what?

[jotay]

I have a T-11 which is larger and I live in a somewhat cold house so I heat the other side w/ a light and a 100watt red bulb which is hook up to a t-stat also.
I am sure others who have T-3's can give you some great info on what they use.