Heating tubs? - Page 3

Trollbie · 05-21-12, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mykee

ANY heat source is set to warm up a room by no more than 20 degrees. So if your room is 65, and you need a 90 hot spot, you're SOL.
20 degrees is the magic number; Learn it, know it.

I'm not trying to heat up my room.

mykee · 05-21-12, 07:15 PM

I meant the air. A UTH or heat tape is built to warm the air around it by 20 degrees.

exwizard · 05-21-12, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by millertime89

you ready for another glorious midwest summer? 90f and 90% humidity (or whatever it gets to but feels that hight...)

.....yuck!

Trollbie · 05-21-12, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by mykee

I meant the air. A UTH or heat tape is built to warm the air around it by 20 degrees.

Well, even when my room was like 65, I still kept basking spots at 90 no problem.

Lankyrob · 05-22-12, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollbie

Well, even when my room was like 65, I still kept basking spots at 90 no problem.

A basking spot is eqasy to maintain but the ambient air temp is much harder to keep high because this heat leaches into the external atmosphere much quicker.

Trollbie · 05-22-12, 05:30 PM

T-stat is here. Hopefully this will end my heating battles.

Trollbie · 05-25-12, 12:13 AM

Ok, what am I doing wrong? Now there is a random hole burned through the UTH... I have a thermostat and everything. No damage to the tub at all. Just a hole through the UTH...

Why does this keep happening

Caylan · 05-25-12, 01:41 AM

Can't say I've ever seen such poor lucky trying to get a heating pad working honestly, sorry to hear. Not sure hwy your UTH burnt a hole in itself to be honest, but what are the settings you set on the thermostat? I would try to set it to proportional if it lets you, and make sure its on heating not cooling. What type of thermostat did you get? The UTH might have been faulty as well...

Trollbie · 05-25-12, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Caylan

Can't say I've ever seen such poor lucky trying to get a heating pad working honestly, sorry to hear. Not sure hwy your UTH burnt a hole in itself to be honest, but what are the settings you set on the thermostat? I would try to set it to proportional if it lets you, and make sure its on heating not cooling. What type of thermostat did you get? The UTH might have been faulty as well...

I use hydrofarm. I use these for my other snakes too with a zoomed UTH and no problems till now. I forget what proportional means, but this one heats up to the set temp and then turns off. I have it set to 90. I kinda hope it was a faulty UTH because I really don't want to buy another one. I already emailed zoomed so we'll see. But if they give me the option to get my money back instead of sending me a new one (if it is a faulty UTH issue), I'm just gonna go with flexwatt...

This sucks. Now poor Luigi only has a tiny basking spot because the only thing I had was a small UTH

Caylan · 05-25-12, 06:23 PM

I'm sure he'll be ok for the time being. If you have an on/off thermostat, then I think you could use the auto off heating pad, because the thermostat would power it back on after it shuts down and the temp drops. Just a thought, I'm not exactly sure how that heat pad work until I look at it really... Sounds like you have a non proportional thermostat to me. Hopefully Zoomed will let you get your money back, but it does sound to me like a faulty heating pad. Flexwatt might be easier anyway though. I've had good experiences with Ultratherm as well, if you wanted to look them up. Good luck!

Edmond Y · 05-26-12, 09:28 AM

I use Ikea light dimmer for all my snakes and incubator, and a zoo meg on off thermostat shut the power off incase of the temp getting too high when **** happen.

Edmond

Tekpc007 · 05-28-12, 01:36 PM

Well i hope this helps , here is how I do it:

i use the same hydrofarm thermostat also and I'm using a 105qrt tub. Now I don't like the zoo med UTH's , read too many bad things about them so I used the Flukers Lab brand (11x11 ) as they say on the box they are ok for plastic and they run at 100F max without a thermostat anyway.

On my tub I used 2 inch PVC end caps like you see in in the pic , about 1$ each and i used a small 1/2 inch sheet metal screw from the inside of the tub to screw it in and I also added some silicone to the top of PVC and covered the screw head with a dab of silicone also.

I also use 2 stone tiles of 12 x 12 inch (4$ each), one on the inside of the tub which oyu cant see as it is covered by aspen and one goes under the UTH (11x11 inch UTH works great for the 12x12 inch tile . i have also in the past stuck the UTH right to the 12x12 inch tile and taped the tile to the bottom of the tub with the UTH below the tile , not sandwiched between the tile and the tub mind you!

Why do I do this ? well stone tile is much more forgiving on temp changes and radiates heat much better . I put a tile underneath just to radiate and disapate heat from the table in case the UTH does fail or get too hot. There is plenty of airspace for the UTH to function well this way.

I measure all temps with a 50$ laser temp gun from amazon plus i have a few digitals inside the tank and under the hides and i check them daily. I use analog and digital in case one fails and to check accuracy.

Boa setup has a 5 gallon screen top siliconed and tie wrapped into the lid for the spot light and airflow. 24 inch LED light bar so it doesn't add heat.

1 of my hydrofarms controls the UTH and the probe is inside the hide , the other one you can see on the branch there goes to the 35watt halogen bulb for a basking spot and that is also on a 4$ wal mart outlet timer so at night the spot shuts off for 12 hours and during the day it is on but the hydrofarm shuts off and on during the day to keep the temp at 90F . this way i have cool temps at night and slightly higher during the day including a nice basking spot.

Rainbow boa setup has a lid with a few holes to keep humidity up.

The bungies help keep the lid tight and you can see I used PVC drain plugs for airvents .

I would say this setup cost me maybe 100$ and 2 hours to setup properly.

Trollbie · 05-29-12, 11:59 AM

Wow! That's a nice set up for a plastic tub! I'm inspired! What do you keep in there?

Thanks for the tips! I think I solved the problem by raising it on shelf brackets, and the last issue was just due to a faulty UTH. If ZooMed gives me the option to get my money back, I'll most likely switch to FlexWatt. I'm also going to consider that screen idea because I'm having a hard time keeping humidity down, and a light would most likely fix my problem.

Thanks again!

Tekpc007 · 05-29-12, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollbie

Wow! That's a nice set up for a plastic tub! I'm inspired! What do you keep in there?

Thanks for the tips! I think I solved the problem by raising it on shelf brackets, and the last issue was just due to a faulty UTH. If ZooMed gives me the option to get my money back, I'll most likely switch to FlexWatt. I'm also going to consider that screen idea because I'm having a hard time keeping humidity down, and a light would most likely fix my problem.

Thanks again!

Small Hog Island Boa in the top
Small Brazilion rainbow boa in the bottom.

If you want more pics let me know.

Trollbie · 05-29-12, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tekpc007

Small Hog Island Boa in the top
Small Brazilion rainbow boa in the bottom.

If you want more pics let me know.

Yeah! I wanna see better how you have them decorated! How big are they? I have Luigi in a 110qt, and cannot for the life of me find a bigger and more appropriate size

Luigi isn't full grown yet, but he's already around 5ish feet probably so it's not an ideal size for him...