Can anyone please suggest a good room heater for a carpeted 12 x 12 foot reptile room? I'd like something with a digital thermostat, good safety features and affordable.
Thanks!
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Room Heaters
KangasKritters
Apr 27, 2009 10:44 PM
Replies (3)
mikebell
Apr 28, 2009 09:58 AM
I would reccomend an oil filled heater. Much less danger than one with bright red hot heating elements.
Also you can get a back up t-stat from Johnson Controls that will control up to 1500 watts. The neat feature of these is that it can work a night time drop in temps automatically.
Rich at Reptile Basics makes the unit for the night drop and sells it as a complete unit. Very easy guy to deal with.
Mike
JYohe
Apr 28, 2009 06:00 PM
K-Mart and Wal-Mart sell ceramic heaters for like $25 or so...
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.....tip over shutoff....1000 to 1500 watt (I set them at 1000 and never 1500)....
I run 1 all summer and 2 in winter if needed....insulate the room before adding snakes....makes it better....
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anthony james mc
Apr 30, 2009 01:11 PM
Oil Filled do work well, BUT I still would back it up with an external thermostat that way you can plug the heater into the bimetal t-stat, use the external one as the "max temp shut off point" meaning it is set just about 4-5F higher than what you set the heater itself at , 99.99% of the time the external is at the "On" position and will let the heater thermostat run just like it was plugged into the wall on it's own, BUT if the heaters thermostat sticks and doesn't shut off and starts to heat up the room to much the external thermostat once it gets hot enough to reach it's shut off point and hits that max point you set it at you'll shut the power down to the heater and that keeps you from cooking your room and killing stuff. DO NOT trust just the thermostat on the heater, I myself had one go out on me and it was stuck on the "ON" position when it went bad, it was in my rodent building and thankfully I caught it before to much happened, it was about 88F when I figured out what went wrong. I have a oil filled heater in my walk in incubator, it has the thermostat that comes built into the heater , and I also have one external bi metal 110V thermostat that it's pulled into , PLUS the room is run on a Helix 1500W system as well , you can never be to safe with stuff like this. People kill stuff all the time by taking short cuts.
Anthony McCain
