Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
water spilling...i think its kinda far fetched at such low temps but not impossible, mayb ill try it, take a standard 10 gallon heat the thing up and pore some room temp water on it, if they doesn't work, ill try cold water, i still don't see it happening at only 150 degree tho, but guess you donno till you try.

but fact still stands, not good for the snake eigher way lol
Its never happened to me but i use that defense because i cant imagine a customer going into my friends store would lie about the UTH cracking the glass. From my understanding they were not out to get anything out of it. Just an explaination as to why & how to prevent it. Its the only actual evidence id ever heard of it happening.

But when i read the same warning in NERD's book, i was pretty much convinced that it could happen under the right circumstances. If you have a tank to spare maybe testing it would be a good idea. The only way i can realy see that happening would be during cleaning time. If that person filled the dish with cold water before replacing the substrate and some spilled. But i have heard of UTH doing some crazy stuff as far as burning up and getting very hot. Im just not willing to test that theory lol.

My only personal experience was a tank that was not raised high enough off the desk it was sitting on. It heated up & dried out the wood so bad over time that the table cracked from one end to the other right under the tank. Thankfully i caught it before it completely split in half. Now most of my snakes are in racks.

If you do test it, be sure to let us know about it.