Heat panels in tank

[KMG]

I have both a rhp and a uth in each of my large cages. I run it with a Herpstat4 and all is well. As long as the power draw of each device added together does not overload the tstat it should be fine.

You could also use a thinner piece for the floor so the uth can be mounted under each cage.

Also another thing to note is the rhp will cause heat on top of it so it heats the cage floor above it. I had to turn the rhp's down because they were creating a hotspot in the tank above them that was higher than I wanted for my BRB and Blood. Since your building yours you may want to put a thicker foot on each cage to separate them a bit more than mine are. Mine have about 1/8 of an inch.

[roaland]

i could do that. i was just going to router in a piece of glass into the floor, that way I'm not losing any stability but I'd still want a good gap from floor of the enclosure to the bottom of whatever its sitting on if I do the UTH thing also. Never used a thermostat for reptiles before so not sure quite how they work yet. Would i need a herpstat 4 even if I'm only running 2 different types of heating units? I poked around that website before looking at the different models and such but got lost in all the features lol.

[KMG]

Well that depends on what you want to control. You could have one outlet control the uth and one control the rhp so a Herpstat2 could work. If you wanted to run other things like lights or a rack or whatever the Herpstat4 would be a great choice.

[roaland]

ah ok awesome, lights i can always run on a timer on a separate outlet not a big deal. I'm mainly worried about the thermostat and how to heat the sucker. It doesn't help I don't have the experience with using anything besides ceramic heaters and a lot of temp/humidity probes lol. Just don't like spending this kinda money for stuff I've never used before. She's my only snake and want to make sure I'm not spending money on things that ain't going to work for me lol. Thanks a lot guys, gave me some great food for thought. I'll prolly post another thread once i finalize all the stuff and figure out how I'm actually gonna set this thing up to see if i missed anything. You guys are great lol

[roaland]

just had a thought i keep forgetting about. I'm so use to this glass tank, the air temp is much different then the surface temp but in an actual enclosure i wont have nearly the air flow problem that glass tanks have. So in theory it should be easier to set up a hotside/coldside heat differential with proper substrate surface temps then in the glass tank I'm currently using. That sounds about right, right??

[roaland]

and how big of a heat panel would i need for a 4'w-24"deep-18"tall enclosure? I'd prolly be using it with a UTH prolly the 50-60 gal size under the hotside of the cage. Would the panel just need to go over the hotside also or do i need it running the entire lenth of the cage?

[KMG]

In theory it should be better. I can not guarantee it though.

I contacted ProProducts and told them what I had and what I wanted to do and they set me up with the panels I needed for my application.

[roaland]

In theory it should be better. I can not guarantee it though.

I contacted ProProducts and told them what I had and what I wanted to do and they set me up with the panels I needed for my application.

hmm glanced at their website lol they look pricy lol but I'll give them a call when i have a chance and hope it doesn't burn my wallet lol didn't see any prices on the link i found on them.

[KMG]

I ordered mine and had them drop shipped to my cage builder who installed them and then sent them to me. Their panels are very nice.

[roaland]

they look slick I'll give them that lol just hope the price isn't to high. It'll at least give me an idea on what I'm looking at though size wise. Hope they give free quotes haha