Enclosure for incoming wee one - Page 2

ThirteenRavens · 08-29-16, 01:05 PM

That's not my hog Albert

That beauty belongs to Minkness

Mine will be arriving on Thursday.

This is what I meant by "heat tape":

bigsnakegirl785 · 08-29-16, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Minkness

OP is talking about the metal tape used for heating elements. Not sure the name or brand of it, but I have an enclosure someone used that stuff in and it's ok. Doesn't melt or get sticky like duct tape at least! (Yup, learned that the hard way....)

Ah never heard of it, and Googling heat tape only brings up the heating element or aluminum tape. (Yeah, if you can even get duct tape to stick to anything. Nowadays, duct tape hardly even adheres to itself let alone anything else. Name brand, off brand, doesn't matter.)

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Originally Posted by ThirteenRavens

That's not my hog Albert

That beauty belongs to Minkness

Mine will be arriving on Thursday.

This is what I meant by "heat tape":

Ah. No wonder it doesn't show up in a search for "heat tape."

toddnbecka · 08-29-16, 11:54 PM

It's also called aluminum foil tape. Sticks really well, taking it off and cleaning up the residue is a bit of work though.

ThirteenRavens · 08-30-16, 02:32 PM

So I can't catch a freaking break today...the DMV has me running in circles to get plates for my rig here in Montana...........I live in a house with mostly 2 prong outlets so I needed to get freaking adapters for that, and looking at the UTH it says to peel the white backing off to stick to the tank, which is exactly what I was trying not to do...is there a way I can avoid doing that and still use the foil tape to tape it to the bottom? I am so frustrated by today it's not even remotely funny

......I did get myself a new gaming mouse so hopefully that all goes well >.<

**Minkness** · 08-30-16, 03:54 PM

Leave the paper on. All it does is protect the sticky stuff.

ThirteenRavens · 08-30-16, 04:51 PM

Ok...someone suggested sticking it to aluminum foil. I was just worried that the paper would catch fire or not allow it to heat properly

**Minkness** · 08-30-16, 05:03 PM

That works too actually. Probably safer

**Andy_G** · 08-30-16, 09:27 PM

I'd just leave it on.

**Minkness** · 08-30-16, 11:34 PM

What Andy said.... >_>

sirtalis · 08-31-16, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Minkness

For a while paper towels are perfect. As is a 10 gallon tank. A tub would work as well.

I have my hog island in a 10 gallon atm.

No offense but that's just sad, the snake looks proportionately huge in that cage, after seeing a few of your other posts about your pets, I think your going for quantity not quality, if you really cared about your snakes health I'd go for the maximum cage size not minimum, sorry I know thats a bit blunt/harsh but I feel like its the truth

**Minkness** · 08-31-16, 11:52 AM

Yeah, not going full out for babies, sorry. She will eventually be in a 5x2x2 or a 6x2x2 for her adult enclosure.

Thank you for your opinion though. =)

sirtalis · 08-31-16, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Minkness

Yeah, not going full out for babies, sorry. She will eventually be in a 5x2x2 or a 6x2x2 for her adult enclosure.

Thank you for your opinion though. =)

sorry about that, I was a bit stressed about a grade when I wrote that, my apologies, and I understand now *facepalm*

**Minkness** · 08-31-16, 12:15 PM

No worries, it happens! No hard feelings, I promise! =)