What is the big DEAL ABOUT USING GLASS TANKS?

[kitedemon]

ok so lets say in your car you can blow hot air on the glass with snow on top and be ok but if it has a chip it will help the glass to pop or crack. If the tank is made with glass that has a lot of chips under the black plastic it will help the glass to pop. I have seen a few pics on google of ppl with glass tanks for a bp and they have the heat light half over the tank so the side is geting heat on it. Now yes you can keep a bp in a glass tank and I may be wrong but the op posted asking what the bid deal is. So to me they are asking about it all /hot glass/glass cracking/humidity/heat transfer/cleaning/and so on.

This line of thinking is silly if you allow a tank to get too hot and suddenly chill it sure it can crack. If you run flexwatt unregulated a tub can melt and catch fire. If you run flexwatt unregulated on a pvcx enclosure it can release chlorine gas and poison the air. Unregulated heat is a problem period it has nothing to do with glass personally I'd rather a crack over fire, chlorine gas...

I don't think tanks can be dismissed out of hand. Can be be difficult sure they can but so can a tub and rack as well. The conditions under which any enclosure is kept makes it a challenge or simple. I have commercial enclosures I love, custom made enclosures I love, side turned tanks that perform the EXACT SAME as the custom enclosures and a bare tub and a rack. In cool rooms (68ºF and below) tanks are easier to heat a rack is very hard to get correct ambient temps in a cool room mostly due to the fact UTH don't change it and what other heat source works with it? The same for tubs you can add a bit more but limited effect.

Open top tanks have a difficulties, tubs do enclosures do racks do nothing is take it home and presto it is perfect with no flaws. Every method must be balanced and maintained based on the location and ambient RH and temp therein.

My personal pick of what I own is the enclosures designed to house snakes, side turned tanks, rack and tub. This is mostly due to the room temps I see most of the time, cool. The tub is a nightmare to keep a reasonable temps in. The rack took so much extras to keep correct temps it is silly (5 T-stat probes, 2 Tstats (HS pro and hydrofarm failsafe) 10 strips of flexwatt 10 hours of physical changes and a small fortune for a five slot rack) Racks save space and the rest is about the same.


FYI side tuned tank DIY...

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...arium-Solution