I built a rheostat at work today with some spare electrical sockets, a dimmer and some in dustrial grounded electrical cabling. its working quite well, i put in a 50W bulb in my heat lamp from a smaller enclosure i wasnt using and i have the temps spot on with no more 100*F basking spot

picked up a 30lb bag of aspin substrate for $8 dont really know if thats a deal, but the betstoe owner's son offered me a bag of what they buy in bul for there in house caages.

ill post pictures in a little bit thanks allot guys and or gals for your help.

if a moderator or admin wants to move this to the husbandry section no hard feelings it seems to be more themed this way now.