Lol, but tubs are ugly!!! Not sure what a dimmer switch would do....right now, I have a 150 watt bulb in there. I can just as easily throw in a 50 watt or 75 watt bulb. The reason I was thinking a heat panel was to try to eliminate what was causing the looooow humidity.Originally Posted by pigfat
Do you have anything to hold the 1/8" up? If its no thicker than 1/8" then it sag drastically in the middle...You'll need at least something thats 1/2"....I know...frustrating.
We'll see about the 1/2". I may be able to pull off the 1/8", there are pegs to support it. I may be able to run a dowel from one peg to the other, as support. If not, I'll go with 1/2".
As for humidity, just for right now I would go get a spray bottle at walmart, you can get them for $1, that way you can mist the enclosure. Already got one, picked it up yesterday! I'll start misting pretty frequently.Are you going to put anything down for substrate? The first thing I thought of was to put a big piece of repti-carpet over the heat mat under her hide....you could cover the entire level with repticarpet as your substrate but it will be a little expensive at first, but you can wash them and reuse them. I dont know how well repti-carpets holds humidity though.
Was thinking of doing aspen as substrate. I like the look of it.
One thing that would save you some money is instead of getting a radiant heat panel, go to walmart or lowes and get a dimmer switch, and wire it into your heat lamp, that way you can adjust how much power is going to it, so it wont get as hot.
Now you know why so many people keep theirs in tubs lol
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