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Has anyone here ever used heat cable in the bp racks? Is it just effective as flexwatt?
Thanks
Bob

i have it on my animal plastics rack and personally dont like it. i had one fail on me and they were good about sending me a free replacement but now after two years its failed again this time i have to pay i have both back and belly luckily otherwise i would be screwed as i have been waiting for two weeks and counting on the replacement one. good luck!!

I don't like heat cable! They fail quickly. I have two racks in the SAME room. One with heat cable, and one with heat tape. The one with heat cable I have been battling respiratory for 3 years. The one with heat tape I have not EVER had a SINGLE case of respiratory. Needless to say, I am building all new racks, and they WILL have heat TAPE!! My theory is that the heat cable just doesn't provide a large enough warm spot, and the ball is unable to rest it's whole body on the heat from the cable. The people I got my heat cable from are GREAT people, but I have concluded that heat cable is inefficient for the ball pythons needs!

I've had the opposite results of the other posters. I currently use heat cable (in my versa rack) and used it in half of my personally built racks. I've never had a cable go bad, and found it to a very good job keeping things warm. Since I switched completely over to racks I don't even use an ambient room heater which is nice.

Hi,

I have been using flexwatt since the early 90s and heat cable (in some form or another) for about 8 years. I have found both to work equally well. I set up all of my new caging with cable, as I have had flexwatt melt plastic cage bottoms on rare occasions. It was my fault and I still hold tape in high regard, but to me, cable seems more forgiving. Both have always heated my cages equally well.

Will