If you look at all the pics of the fire you would see that the racks that caught on fire were Vision racks which only use heat cables. No way to use flexxwatt on a Vision rack or I would have switched it myself. Don't go by what some reporter says as I can count on my fingers and toes all the news reports on snakes and reptiles that are completely wrong, happens all the time. Look at the actual pictures of the fires and you will see one melted Vision rack after another. The problem with heat rope is if it gets pinched, which is quite easy on a Vision rack, it could short out and possibly ignite. I have used Vision racks for many years and owned 7 of them, any little tug on the cable can pull it up out of the plastic U holders and then you slide a tub on top of it and pinch or crush it. I have talked to several other breeders who knew their setups and they all say it was a shorted cable on the Vision racks that caused the fire.Originally Posted by Zombie
If you look at many of my old posts I used to endorse Vision all the time as I had many of them and had nothing but great results with them but after much feedback and research I decided to get rid of them at the cost of many thousands of dollars. Not because I like to spend money but because I have too much to loose.
Heat cables are made in China which lets face it is not known for safety or quality. I have nothing to gain here, I only want to share my personal experience and knowledge with others.
Animal Plastics, on the other hand, has their cables recessed and permanently fixed so this can't happen. They also use a much higher quality cable too. I have personally used all these racks and this is what I have learned from my own research and experiences, not from some article on the net.
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