I feel your pain on spending a butt-load on a tank and having to ditch it for a tub... But believe me, the extra cost is well worth losing the headache that trying to maintain stable heat/temps in an aquarium brings on! Besides, it's barely more $ anyways. My extra costs were:
20-30g Heat pad (stuck my first one directly to the tank as well...) - $26 (pet store price.. blah...)
26 quart tub (about 6.5"H x 15.5"W x 23"H) - $8
Reused the water dish, hides, temp/humidity monitor, and herpstat from the tank, plus newspaper for substrate (still have a lot of aspen left, but newspaper is just easier...)
So for $30-$40 you'll have a perfect tub setup! Then just put an ad on craigslist for your tank and make some of that money back!!
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