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Originally Posted by tikichick
No need to worry, the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012 anyway  |
Sweet- I'll probably be ready by then anyhow.
Outside of uv flourecents, and an occasional mercury vapor uv, the only bulbs I use are the cheap ol' basic style incandesants.
I am slowly (very slowly- like not actually working on it) working on running 4" flexwatt under all of my aquarium shelves. I already have the flexwatt, and a herpstat digital thermostat.
I already did one shelf, but havent gotten around to doing the rest. I cut out and stapled 2" wide strips of 1/8" panelling to raise the tanks just high enough so the flexwatt doesnt get smashed by the tanks. Then I put 2 layers of foil down( for added safety, as my shelves are wood), held down by foil tape(the stuff they sell with flexwatt) and then the flexwatt. It works, but, since the tank's glass is actually up higher than the tank frame by a bit, I end up with too much heat loss by time it gets through the tank and bedding.
Flexwatt is supposed to be kept under 95, and at that temp, I only get mid 80's in the tank. I want high 80's to low 90"s, so I need to shim up the flexwatt under each tanks center. Hope to shim it with something soft/spongy and fireproof so the flexwatt will gently touch the glass. It should be really cool(warm actually) when I get it all dialed in. The thermostat even has a a night drop, so I can program it to go cooler at night. In the meanwhile, I keep the reptile room at 85 during the day, and low 70's at night, and only those who need it (desert animals and such) have additional heat.
Here's the flexwatt- I moved a tank for the pic.
Here's my two racks that I plan to run it on. plan to do 3 of the 4 shelves on each one, for a total of 30 feet of flexwatt, up to 27 tanks heated off one thermostat.
