Well the heater said 81 degrees. After the malfunction I took one of our thermostats that we aren't using in there to see what it read and we switched heaters. It happened again with the new heater also. The heater said 86 degrees but the thermostat said 101.

The room is in the basement approximately 6 x 5 feet. I installed Styrofoam insulation with the metal lining because I couldn't get the room to get above 70. It worked great keeping it warm, a little too good in fact. I am not sure why the heaters didn't kick off when they reached their setting of 72 degrees. I ended up finding another space heater that I can attach to the thermostat as a back up to shut it off when it gets too hot. I couldn't use it with the other two heaters because when they loose power they reboot and have to be manually turned back on. I took the rats out of the room for about 15 hours and kept testing the heat. It appears that the new system is working well so I returned them.

I really hope this works out, but if not it seems I have a walk in incubator. :/ BTW the foster mother is doing great! She is working her little but off keeping all 22 feed. I have been taking them out and trying to give them formula also but they don't seem very receptive to it.