Is this big enough?

[Grimmie]

Congrats on the egg! I can't wait to see that in 3(ish) years time for me!

Yeah i found thoose heat cables and weren't impressed at all. However i did email mgreptiles and they said they could ship flexwatt to the UK :-D for $39.

So 15ft of 11" flexwatt with 10 metal clips comes to $109, about £60.

Thats enough flexwatt to heat 5 3ft x 2ft tubs (the Ikea ones), i think it would be easier that trying to use UTH's, as the cheapest i could find, would cost £26 a shelf (2 x UTH's).

The only snag is that america is 120v and we are 240v, which might be a problem so i've emailed that to ask, my physics isn't that great (i'm a microbiology and Immunology student).

But assuming its ok and you want some, i don't mind adding what you want for your order to mine and then you paypal what your bits costs and half the postage (and whatever it costs me to send you, probs a couple of quid)..... makes it cheaper for both of us.

Also on another note i went to loads of big stores yesterday and turned up nothing on the tub front aswell so it looks like i'm buying Ikea tubs *sigh*.

And finally i went into B&Q to price up wood for my design and it comes to about £30 - £40, depending on the design which i can't finalize till i get the tubs ( getting them tomorrow).

So for my 5 shelf rack which can hold 10 hatching to 3-3.5ft snakes (tubs split in 2 with a wooden divider, i might be able to split them into 3 for hatching size spaces but i need the tubs to get accurate measurements of there size), any bigger females would get there own tub, costs:-

£40 for Wood
£60 for flexwatt (i already have a habistat thermostat (300w max, so will almost be at max load) + 2x Digital thermometer/hydrometers)
£55 for tubs

Total = £155 (about $300 for everyone else reading )
Which, considering my 2ft x 1.5ft tank with UTH's cost me £90, is a bargin!

What do you think?
Also if anyone else wants to buzz in please do!

Graham