Flexwatt Idea, thoughts?

[Blue Apple Herps]

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?

 

[zwyatt]

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?

 

[Blue Apple Herps]

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?

 

[diamondlil]

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 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

 

[Blue Apple Herps]

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 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

I'll have to search around for that thread.