Quote Originally Posted by snake lab View Post
That still doesnt make sence to me. If the heat tape gets hotter then it would show in the tub as well. Therefore when the tub temp goes past 90 the heat will shut off. The heat will never get hot enough to burn an animal. I have never had a catastrophic failure with heat tape in that situation. I could understand that scenario if you were using a rheostat but not a thermostat. Even if the probe was in the front of the tub and you had a failure the stat would shut off once the front reached 90. If it got to 90 in the front at worst you would have 100 in the back and thats still not hot enough to burn an animal. Now if your thermostat fails thats a different story but i still have never heard of a snake burning in any of these scenarios.
Famous last words!

I used to put them in the tub... But then switched back to on the tape. For a few reasons
1. Do u put the probe on the substrate or under it?
2. What if the snake moves it from ur location and it fails.
3. Mine r water spillers so what if the probe shorts out.
4. How do u attach it securly.. Tape naw not good... Glue.. PIA..
5. What about tub cleaning. Now i have a probe attached to the tub.
6. What if i need to have that tub open?? Will be cooling and the herpstat will be trying to compensate and. Heating up the other tubs.


Basically ive determined through trial and error that my tubs sap ~ 16 degrees.. My flexwatt is at 106ish and my tubs are 91 ish.
Its just substantially easier imo to have it on the tape.. (mines cut into the shelf below the tape) but frankly its whatever works.

My best friend in the bp world has his in a dead tub.. And it works for him and hes a much larger scale then me...