LOL......I know you...........I posted this same response to you on the other site as well.

I use paper towel tubes for hides for hatchlings and shoe boxes half filled with aspen for adults.



When you get a new UTH stick the UTH on a piece of ceramic, slate or foam insulation board (can be bought cheap at Homedepot) then just set the tank on top of it. This way you never have to remove it from the tank or drag chords around when you clean the tank out.



Here is a pic of an emergency hatchling set up I had to throw together real quick. This is why the bin is sitting above the uth..........no thermostat. If you use a thermostat then you can set the bin directly on the uth. This is using foam insulation board.

Here is a quarantine bin setup for a larger sterilite. Once again I have stuck the UTH to the foam insulation board. I used foil tape as well because it is a reused UTH that was stuck on a glass tank. This one is attached to a thermostat. Notice also the black chord that is the probe for the thermostat. I do not put the probe in the cage but keep it outside the cage, next to the heat source and adjust the thermostat based on the temps I get inside the cage directly over the UTH (using a digital thermometer). I knw the manufacturer doesnt recomend re-using the uth's but I have never had a problem with it even though I only use them sporadically. I use heat tape to provide heat to my collection.

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• Yay! - ilm, Tue Jul 29 00:01:56 2008
• RE: Yay! - akki_neko, Tue Jul 29 00:14:48 2008
• RE: Yay! - wisema2297, Tue Jul 29 10:01:25 2008