RHP's

[distaff]

The ambient temps in my tanks need a boost.
Already have UHT's for the warm hides.

RHP's: Pro Products vs. Reptile basics?
I e-mailed both vendors this afternoon with questions.

Any users of both have preferences?
Anything I should know?

Thanks!

[bproffer]

I don't have any experience with Reptile Basics or Pro Products for that matter as mine are due to arrive today or tomorrow. But I have called and talked to Bob at Pro Products and he was extremely helpful. He actually prefers people to call so he can make sure they get the proper size/wattage RHP for their application. He is a little anti-UTH so be prepared for that. He gave me about a 5 minute discourse in the dangers of heat tape, etc. when I called to order my RHP's.

[distaff]

I don't have any experience with Reptile Basics or Pro Products for that matter as mine are due to arrive today or tomorrow. But I have called and talked to Bob at Pro Products and he was extremely helpful. He actually prefers people to call so he can make sure they get the proper size/wattage RHP for their application. He is a little anti-UTH so be prepared for that. He gave me about a 5 minute discourse in the dangers of heat tape, etc. when I called to order my RHP's.

Thanks.
The Pro site had a list of questions. I answered those. If he really wants to discuss on the phone, I will. (for some reason, can't stand talking on the phone, and always do all I can to avoid it.)

Heat tape does get very hot (HLH Reptiles has a video demonstrating that). The small UTH's I have never seem to, even w/o T-stats (which I do use). The benefits of "belly heat" always made a lot of sense to me, but I really don't know the physiology...maybe radiant from the top is better.

I should have considered it, but I just wasn't thinking about the ambients in our house when I set these tanks up, and assumed everything good-to-go with just the UTH's. I really like how little energy they use, but obviously, they don't use enough!

[Mr. Misha]

I have both and I would go with Reptile Basics because of personal reference. Both work well and never had an issue with either in a course of 4 years.

The Pro Products RHPs don't warrant the price. They claim to have a UL certficate but they don't provide a number of the cerificate or a link. Tried to search for it on the UL site and didn't find anything. Seems shady to me.



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[distaff]

I have both and I would go with Reptile Basics because of personal reference. Both work well and never had an issue with either in a course of 4 years.

The Pro Products RHPs don't warrant the price. They claim to have a UL certficate but they don't provide a number of the cerificate or a link. Tried to search for it on the UL site and didn't find anything. Seems shady to me.



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Thank you!
Reptile Basics got back to me right away. (They always do.) Still have yet to receive a response from Pro. Was wondering about the cost difference, and all other things being equal, that matters. Also, I prefer the black over the beige tone that Pro Products shows.

[Mr. Misha]

Thank you!
Reptile Basics got back to me right away. (They always do.) Still have yet to receive a response from Pro. Was wondering about the cost difference, and all other things being equal, that matters. Also, I prefer the black over the beige tone that Pro Products shows.

Yea, he's a good guy. He doesn't try to upsell you either. Just gives you information and lets you decide.

His RHPs are also good quality and I like that it's plastic so there's no chance of anything to rust.

Meant to say preference* in my last post. Lol.

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[bproffer]

I just got my RHP's in and installed them today. I was in the same boat as you. I thought I could get away with just heat tape, but I was wrong. I was going to go with reptile basics, but Animal Plastics accidentally shipped me a white T8 instead of a black one. So I chose the Pro Products RHP purely for aesthetic reasons. It matched the cage. Lol. It seems to be a decent quality and installation was pretty simple and straight forward. I did have a little mishap with them however. I placed my order over the phone and they wrote down the wrong expiration date of my credit card. When I finally called them back after a week of not getting a shipping notification and noticing I hadn't been charged, they told me that they had been trying to get ahold of me, but for some reason the call wouldn't go through. That's when I found out they wrote down the exp. date wrong and I believe they probably wrote my phone number down wrong as well. It was a minor annoyance, but it did keep me from bringing home a BP this last weekend from Repticon.

BTW, animal plastics was great to deal with even though they shipped the wrong color cage. They offered to ship me a black one and provide me a label to return the white one, and offered to credit me $50 to keep the white one. I didn't really want to wait another few weeks for the right cage so I took the discount. In the end I was happy and they saved some money having to pay return shipping on the cage and having to ship out another one.