Attaching a CHE lamp - Screen Top Glass 40 gallon Tank

[Bogertophis]

Bah, I want to give the weight of the lamp... the weight it deserves. It likely will not/could not move.. it isn't OCD, perhaps being hidden under a table through the 1989 Quake in Cali did it, I recall my home.. we lost every dish plate, glass, and anything fragile... Bay Area. It should be safe to simply place the CHE lamp above? Luckily, I work form home, for now, I will temp check her tank and also it might take me a fair bit to be comfortable with an unsecured lamp, but I trust if the majority do it, I might simply be overly sensitive and overly worried
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I agree it would be safer to attach the lamps. I don't worry much about mine as (a) I don't live on such shaky ground anymore, & (b) while I use up to 7 such warming lights in winter, they are dimmed down pretty low...they're not serious "heat lamps", just supplemental warmth for spoiled rat snakes that like to sleep in their "tree houses"....

That couldn't have been fun dealing with all that broken glass... I actually had nothing break, for all the hard shaking we had, & I didn't live far from desert epicenter. But one thing I did BEFORE they happened was to install rubber 'peel & stick' weatherstripping on the bottom edges of all my glass tanks, and without that, I'm quite sure some would have slid off their cabinets & crashed (snakes & all). By coincidence, there was a 5 pt. pre-quake that showed me how much my tanks could slide, so I had weatherstripped all of them months before we had a serious earthquake...whew! Been using the stuff ever since, so anything short of the house actually up-ending, they're pretty safe...