My water bowl is on the mat and is decently sized. I had the Kane heat mats outside before and then I was testing them inside and between the 2 it heated my air temps 4 degrees so I decided to leave them in. How I have them is so where the cords go into the mats is close to the wall then I drilled holes and plugged them and there is only an inch of cord in the enclosure. I was looking at the rhp from reptile basics so I'll be contacting them as suggested. Just wanted to know others experiences but it doesn't seem to many people use misting systems.