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chrisandrew
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
18 Posts |
 Posted - 08/10/2013 : 16:26:38
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| Hello, just a quick question. I have a glass vivarium with a plastic bottom which is quite thick and I was wondering what should I do with the heat mat. |
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hamlin9
Snake Mite
20 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2013 : 16:40:52
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| Do u know how much heat can get through? |
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chrisandrew
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
18 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2013 : 16:46:48
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| Unfortunately not I just got it off of a friend today. |
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chrisandrew
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
18 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2013 : 16:49:26
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| It is a fish tank but I thought I could use it for a vivarium |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2013 : 21:21:37
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| Generally, with plastic and glass vivs you can put the heat mat underneath it. They need to go inside wooden vivs though. |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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smart bunny
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5091 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2013 : 11:14:31
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| Yeah, tape to the bottom of the viv on the outside - is there a gap though? If it's a fish tank you will need to raise it slightly so there is a gap underneath the mat to pop a piece of polystyrene. You don't want the tank sitting on top of the mat and squashing it to the surface underneath, that would be dangerous. |
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Isoldael
Yearling
Netherlands
999 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2013 : 13:24:25
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| If you want to know if enough heat's getting through, simply put a thermometer or your thermostat on the inside and see how hot it gets. |
1.0 anery stripe (Nash)
1.0 hypo pewter (Loki)
1.0 bloodred het amel, charcoal, hypo, stripe 50% phet anery, lavender (Kasumi)
0.1 grey background normal het amel (Saphira)
0.1 tessera het amel, anery, stripe (Lilith)
0.1 amel (Aurora)
0.1 hypo bloodred het anery, charcoal, stripe 50% phet amel, lavender (Mara)
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chrisandrew
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
18 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2013 : 18:14:53
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Thank you all for your help
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