I'm new and made some mistakes. I have a 20 gallon and a 10 gallon tank. I just ordered and recieved a thermo and some heat strips from reptile supplies. Hooked it up today and its not working. Heres why I have a foot piece that is the 11 ichs for the 20 gallon and a foot piece 3 inch for the ten gallon. Don't know what I was thinking but I thought I could hook them both up to the thermo and it would be ok. Well it wasn't got the 20 gallon up to 94 degrees pretty fast but the 10 gallon was only at 85 degrees on the warm side. So I unplugged it. Now here is my plan wanna make sure this is a good idea before I go spend more money. I'm going to go get another ten gallon tank tommorrow move the BP thats in the twenty and move him to the ten. This will leave me with two ten gallons. Then I'm going to call reptile suppiles talk to Ritch and order another foot of the three ich strip for the ten gallon. Then when i get that hook them back up and everything should be fine. Seeing how a ten gallon is only 10 inchs wide I'm going with a 3 ich strip this sound right. Let me know what you guys think so I can go out tommorrow and spend more money. Thanks Guys!! Also I was told to put the probe from the thermo on the heat strip itself, but this seems weird to me. Now when I did this the thermo was reading 115 and climbing fast will my warm side was only about 82 degrees. I put the probe in the tank on the bottom under the beding and it went down alot. So what should I do about this should I put it in the tank or should I put it on the strip itself. I could put it on the strip then just wait until my Acrurite thermeter read between 90 and 94 then set it to that but I wil have to set the thermo itself really high, I mean really high. What do you guys think I should do . Thanks again