That's better, but again with certain substrates thicker can be better as it increases thermal mass and can help distribute the heat.

Just look at radiant floor heat used in bathrooms, etc. If you took all that heat cable and just draped it out in the open around a bathroom it would have little heating effect, even if you had it heated super hot.

But then bury that heat cable in a thick bed of motar and cover it with heavy tile and suddently that same heat source can heat the room. Why? Because the heat from the cable can move conductively into the motar and tile which then heats up and radiates into the room.

I guess my point in all of this is that the a sterile setup in a glass tank in a cool room can be a very bad setup for the animal in question. That situation needs some thermal mass just like the bathroom example described above.
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Current snakes:

0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)

1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Jave local (green)

2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

1.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Celebes locale (Black & Tan)

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• Infra Red heat mat under glass tank - zorpasg, Mon Mar 12 09:10:16 2007
• RE: Infra Red heat mat under glass tank - liquidleaf, Mon Mar 12 15:20:25 2007
• RE: Infra Red heat mat under glass tank - chris_harper2, Mon Mar 12 15:35:41 2007
• RE: Infra Red heat mat under glass tank - liquidleaf, Mon Mar 12 16:10:13 2007
• RE: Infra Red heat mat under glass tank - chris_harper2, Mon Mar 12 16:20:27 2007
• RE: Infra Red heat mat under glass tank - zorpasg, Mon Mar 12 16:33:58 2007
• spelling... should be mortar (np) - chris_harper2, Mon Mar 12 16:49:35 2007