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This is something I've done on a few 20 Gal long tanks. Just thought I'd share a sketch.

This is the easiest way I could come up with to have a varied average temperature from one side to the other, and front to back.

Prior to this, I had one strip of Flexwatt at one temperature, and another strip at a lower temperature. With the heat cable trace above I was able to get a similar effect with a single heater and controller.

Obviously you tweak the layout for your animal and background temperature. This layout is for a spotted python cage in an unheated room hence the larger percentage of heated floor area.

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Mark

Is this a free hand sketch based on the actual position of the cable or is there in fact a formula figuring the ration of width to length and the frequency of the cable run.

Just curiosity...
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile

1.0 Snow "Kahl"
0.2 Triple Het Moonglow "Kahl"
0.1 Orange Tail Hypo Het Leopard
0.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow
1.0 Ghost
0.1 DH Ghost
1.1 "Kahl" Albino
1.0.2 Hypomelenistic
1.3 Pastel Hypo
0.1 Anerthrystic
0.0.2 Normal

1.1 Morelia Clastolepis

Free hand first, then I ran the cables, then tweaked the cable pattern, then corrected the sketch to better represent.

Saw a similar envelope for radiation intensity vs distance from a star. Hey why not.
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Mark