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Hey ya'll whats up? I jus got 7 out of ten live baby corns so im pretty happy. ill get some pics up asap. Im not sure if 7 of ten is good or not but i truly wish the others would have made it. It was my girls first clutch and my first time breeding them...does that account for anything? Anyway....my question is this. im putting all my corns into plastic containers with air holes for ventilation drilled in the tops and bottoms. i have enough heat pads but do they need lighting for heat or will the pad suffice as long as they are making the enclosure the correct temp? Thanks

Try to use the Under tank heat. It will help out digestion having their bellies warm. At least this is what I'v read. If you can't get the temps down by using a reostate, try raising the container a little.

7/10...congrats on that.
Rob
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Flexwatt or any heating element even a light can be controlled by a rheostat or a thermostat. But UTH will not burn out like lights, from the on off process of most stats. I use a biostat, and flexwatt for my small setup. Bottom heat may not be exactly natural, but as I have read too, it helps greatly with digestion, which is logical.

Now, on aquaria I DO NOT like the stick on, or most UTH. Because glass has odd properties. You buy a relatively small heat pad at one end, but the heat is not pulled across the glass in a gradient heat pattern. Temps drop off fast away from the heater on glass bottoms. So it may be 85-87 on the pad, but a 20 long may have a 68 degree corner if your house is cold.

When I sell a tank setup I try to sell a light for heat. I tell them DO NOT turn it on and off as this will greatly shorten the life of a bulb. A bulb burns 8-10 times the wattage the moment you turn it on, compared to the operating wattage. So I always tell them to get a lamp dimmer(rheostat) from Lowes/Home Depot. Not good for my bulb sales, but it is the truth. A light gives a great gradient heat pattern across a cage.

But lets face it, when you start collecting to many who has 50 tanks setup? So UTHs of various type are used. If you have a tank, and using one, I also recommend, a ceramic tile over most of the heat pad towards the cooler end of the tank. This allows a larger spread of the heat in a better pattern. IMO Also some stick on UTHs get to hot, that how I got my first female ball on a rescue, it had a bad belly burn. Again, the tile/slate/long flat rock helps greatly.

Now to answer your question specifically,, er,, what was it again?
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

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