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Flexwatt Idea, thoughts?

Blue Apple Herps

Blue Apple Herps

aka Matthew, PhD
I was wondering if one could make a heating pad that you could place safely inside the viv by taking a piece of flexwatt and securing it between two pieces of acrylic and then sealing up the edges to make it water proof?

Think this would work and be safe?
 
I may just be misunderstanding, but how is it any safer than putting any other heating element inside the viv, where the snake can come into direct contact with it?
 
It wouldn't really be any different than it being used as an UTH; that has a barrier which is the cage. This idea would employ acrylic (or glass) inside the cage as a barrier. So the snake wouldn't be in actual, direct contact with the heating element. Does this help?
 
Oh I remember a thread with instructions on how to do it, and how to build a false floor in a wooden viv, but I don't remember which thread, sorry, senior moment :rolleyes: But it can be done with the mat controlled by a thermomstat so it's a safe temperature and the electrical connections are then safe from moisture
 
diamondlil said:
Oh I remember a thread with instructions on how to do it, and how to build a false floor in a wooden viv, but I don't remember which thread, sorry, senior moment :rolleyes: But it can be done with the mat controlled by a thermomstat so it's a safe temperature and the electrical connections are then safe from moisture
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I'll have to search around for that thread.
 
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