Received my first Animal Plastics cage this week and I'm assembling it this evening. No hangups so far, it's well cut and pre-drilled so it's been easy. Couple questions though...

1. I've seen in pictures of others' T8's on the forums that the bottom usually has a cutout for the UTH wire/probe as well as an outline (or is it a recessed cutout?) to accommodate the heat tape. Mine has the cutout for the wire/probe but no outline or recess for the heat tape. Issue?

2. The T8 does not appear to include rubber bumpers or feet to go on the bottom of it. What's to keep the cage from resting directly on the heat tape, such that the heat tape is in direct contact with the table top surface underneath it? This seems less than ideal...

Thanks for any insights!