I have a little bit of money, after paying for tuition and books , and I'm planning on getting a thermostat for my two snakes. I've had them on rheostats until I could finally afford a thermostat, but with my class load this semester and hopefully finding a part-time job I can't sit there and monitor the temp fluctuations.

My question is this, would you recommend the Johnson Controls Thermostat-Pre Wired or the Ranco ETC-111000 Pre Wired?

Both are affordable with my budget. Which is prefered, better quality and stuff of that nature.