Heat tape wiring and general heating question

[jossh27]

Hi there. To make this as simple as possible- I'm wondering what kind of wiring people use in their racks to join multiple strips of flexwat to run off one thermostat? For example if you have a 4 shelf high rack with 4 separate strips of flewat on each row what kind of wiring do you use to connect each strip of fw to each other? The place I bought the flexwat from doesn't sell additional wiring aside from the wire and clipsets that go from the heat tape to the wall plug


Also i don't have a room dedicated to just my snakes so i can't Jack up ambient temps to the 80's without making life miserable for myself and other family members and Id really like to stay away from che and heatlights... is it possible to keep ambient temps correct with just heat tape?