Hi again,


I haven't been able to find anything like flexwatt yet but there are heat cables for sale ( maybe our american friends can tell us how they compare with flexwatt?).

The ones I have found on ebay are made by zoo med but the ones in my local herp store wasn't - I am going there later today so will try and get the details for you.

I'm a little worried about their ability to keep the temperatures up in my living room ( gets parky in the winter) but the guy in the shop suggested getting the longer ( higher wattage) version and using more loops per shelf.

Made sense as they all seemed around the same price (£25 - £35) for the short ones or the longest one.I was however thinking of having 2 cables per rack as I planned on having hatchling space on the bottom 2 shelves.

But this depends on how much space each shelf takes in the real world as I don't want the drawers opening higher than I can comfortably look down on ( and I'm a short-ass of only 5'8 ) Angry royals at nose height just seems a bad idea somehow.

Would definately be intrested in pictures of the rack - if only to find out how many shelves I can fit in each one. I have a horrible suspicion I'm going to end up building a whole second rack just to hold 2 cornsnake and a house snake - though I suppose it does make new arrivals easier to deal with.

What does the inside of those tubs look like? any dips or ridges? Also do you plan to leave the lids on?

I was thinking of building using melamine and not using the lids but having wood edges on 3 sides to the tub and a fold down one on the 4th to stop the royals pushing their way out - my big (2.33 kg) girl once destroyed a metal fish tank hood in under 20 minutes while I was cleaning her tank so I figured any give in the edge of the tub was a bad idea.


dr del