Rack Heated with Pads

[MikeV]

point well taken but let me ask you for a simple home set up cost included a heat mat set up would be cheaper wouldn't it? because all you would need are the pads but with flexwatt and correct me if I'm wrong you would need

Rolls of Flexwatt
Foil Tape
Electric Thermostat to control temps of each tub to shut the Flexwatt of at a certain temp

last time i checked flexwatt does get over 120 where as heat mats get to about 80-90 and shut themselves off so you do need the thermostat

also as i was saying before he wanted a cheap and easy solution to belly heating a Rack I'm new and just thought this would be easiest and i do appreciate the input I'm just wondering how off base i am lol

You MUST have a thermostat even for heat pads!

I have a heat pad in my savannah monitors tank that is unregulated and it reaches temps of 120 - 130F on its own

If you use multiple heat pads you may end up needing more than one thermostat where with flexwatt you only need one thermostat