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i'm wondering how people heat 32 qt Sterilites?
- Thread starter Glock23
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Kevin McRae
Manitoban Reptiles
You should have a thermostat on your heat pad as heat pads can get as hot as 40 C.I keep my heat pads at 32 C and they never melt the plastic.
Beothon Lover
The One an Only Kuro....
All my snakes are in sterilite or rubbermaid tubs.
My little snakes are in a half-rack system with heat cable(controled with a rheostat of course!) for heat thought the cable does not touch the tubs.
But my BP and my Dumeril's are completely different. BP is in a 90qt sterilite, Dumeril's is in a 52" long Iris Box that was ment to hold christmas stuff. They both have a UTH stuck to the bottom of their tubs...and are controlled with a thermostat....if you use a low wattage(i.e. the Kritters brand UTH is only about 5 watts) UTH and control it with a thermostat/rheostat there's no way it'd melt the plastic.
hope i helped.
Beothon
My little snakes are in a half-rack system with heat cable(controled with a rheostat of course!) for heat thought the cable does not touch the tubs.
But my BP and my Dumeril's are completely different. BP is in a 90qt sterilite, Dumeril's is in a 52" long Iris Box that was ment to hold christmas stuff. They both have a UTH stuck to the bottom of their tubs...and are controlled with a thermostat....if you use a low wattage(i.e. the Kritters brand UTH is only about 5 watts) UTH and control it with a thermostat/rheostat there's no way it'd melt the plastic.
hope i helped.
Beothon
Beothon Lover
The One an Only Kuro....
Beothon Lover said:
should be "though the cable does not touch the tubs"
darn my bad spelling..and lack of an edit button!
snakemom1961
Spring is here!
I have one of my snakes in a steralite type tube with a UTH on a thermostat, I've had no problems at all with there being too much heat for the plastic.
As was stated before, no matter what type of enclosure you have you must use a thermostat or rheostat to control the heat of your UTH. Hope this helps and good luck..
As was stated before, no matter what type of enclosure you have you must use a thermostat or rheostat to control the heat of your UTH. Hope this helps and good luck..