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i got 20 foot of it today at the shop just to try it out, i not sure if i want to try it in a rack first or just on a few 10gal tanks that are right next to each other, has any one used it befor how well does it work?
thanks tjsreptiles

Am I seeing that correctly - the milk has a colorless nose?

Routering grooves in wood and laying the heat cable in works well. I prefer particle board or melamine for this application. You may need 2 or 3 rows on each shelf. For shoeboxes I used 2 passes of the heat cable on each shelf. Worked out nicely, but takes more work in cutting grooves in the shelves. I use about a 2 1/2 " space between cable runs, but you may want to experiment yourself.

The nice thing about heat cable is that you can make more runs for heat over more area if you need to. You may want to router more grooves than you think you'll need.

Vision is making racks that use heat cable. You can place as much or as little as you want under the boxes. This is about as controllable as you can get. Better than the "one width of heat tape only" method, especially if housing different animals with different heat area requirements in the same rack.

Hello,I use hundreds of feet of that heat cable,I live in Florida and I run it behind my tubs and control with a helix thermostat,to get the right tempature I set a thermoter in a tub and adjust accordingly,I have used them for years with no problem at all,Terry M

thanks guys,, i pluged it in today just to let it run all day to see how hot it got and how it works the one thing that sucks i got the 14 foot and the first 3 or 4 foot is the cool end closes to plug, but thats ok, thank for the info
tjsreptiles