About a week ago our snake burnt his underbelly on his heating pad. The pad majorly malfunctioned (also our fault because we had no regulator). I said never again will we use one. Now I'm curious though after seeing post after post about them. So, how do you have yours set up? Directly touching the tank? On the "feet" (definitely would like to see pics because I've never seen those)? Wrapped in foil tape? They work nicely when they want to, I'm just nervous I suppose. The extra heat would be nice for him to coil up on.


Snakey is in a 55 gallon tank (for now), covered in styrofoam on 3 sides, top is aluminum foiled (I want to change to plexiglass), we have a white light and a red light in a shared dome and we use newspaper for bedding. I'm looking into getting sphagnum moss and bamboo. He normally has a swimming pool with a water heater but since he's covered in goop 2x a day I just have two shallow water dishes for him.