If you can't use heat pads/tape outside the enclosure, and are scared to used it inside, or don't trust it, do this...

Get a blanket box sized rubbermaid tub or similar, fill it about halfway with aquarium gravel, or something similar, and then get that heat pad, heat matt, or heat tape and place it inside this tub.

You leave the tub open, and you place the heat inside either all the way below the gravel, or somewhere in the middle of it, until it warms the top layer up to the desired temps.

I used to have to do this with the old big Kane Heat Matts before I could get thermostats and rheostats. Tape the wires to the sides of the tub so they are not in the way.

If you are placing the heat all the way at the bottom of this tub, cut some holes in the bottom of the tub to allow urates to seep out, this way it won't puddle up and damage the heat source.



later, Joe
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
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