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I'm going to the Hamburg show tomorrow morning and I'm going to get the flexwatt there, so I need an answer before then. What size flexwatt should I use for 10 and 20L gallon tanks? Would a 1' piece of 11" flexwatt under the warm end work, or should I run 3" under the whole back of the tank? The tanks also have heat lamps, and it's for some ball pythons and a yealing boa constrictor, in case it matters. Also, is there a way to wire two or three pieces together in a loop so I don't need a seperate dimmer for each one?
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MY COLLECTION:
1.0 Columbian BCI
0.0.1 Crested Gecko
1.2 Ball Pythons

MY WISHLIST:
A Northern Blue-Tongue Skink
1.1 nice Jungle Carpet Pythons
1.1 Hogg Island Boas
0.1 pastel Columbian BCI
A Blood or Short-Tail Python
A Dumerils Boa
1.2 Bearded Dragons
1.1 Rankins Dragons
1.3 Crested Geckos
Breeding groups of various Leopard Gecko morphs (including Tremper Giant, Patternless Albino, Blazing Blizzard, and Bell Albino).

as far as coverage .. i dont use underbelly heat and heat lamps so i cant accuately help you there. i use one or the other.
but for underbelly ehat you want about 1/3 of the cage (the hot end) to be covered by the heating element. so by that you should be able to figure out how much to get.
i believe the way to connect more then one is to connnect the positive to the positive of the next piece and the negative to the negative of the next piece and then to the plugged wires. so it looks like a chain. i cant find a website that shows it right now but if you look you might have better luck.
as for the dimmer if you have a plug in type just plug the pug end of your chain into the dimmer and you can control all the pieces together. and if its a wired dimmer then just wire it inbetween the plug end of the chain and the first piece of tape.
have fun at the show, my girlfriend will be there but unfortunately i wont.

The amount of heat tape you need will depend on a few things. Such as room temp, substrate etc. I would probably pick up 11" for each end rather then running the entire length though. Also to avoid having to wire them all together use an extension cord, plug all three flexwatt strips into it, and then the extension cord into the dimmer.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
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