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<blockquote data-quote="VaporRyder" data-source="post: 200887" data-attributes="member: 37475"><p>Key point. If you are using a heat pad, the thermometer probe placement and the thermometer itself becomes more important. IIRC, and it’s been years since I heated a reptile (mostly ceramic heating systems for snakes in wooden vivariums), you need to be measuring temperature at the hottest point. If the pad is on one side of the enclosure - it should never be on the bottom of the enclosure - the thermometer probe should be inside the tank on that side. Heat mats or pads should only be used with a thermostat - which itself will have a probe. The thermostat probe should be between the mat and the glass (or acrylic).</p><p></p><p>As discussed, unless you live in a particularly cold house, it would probably be best to just use room heating or space heating. You can certainly use tank heating via a heat pad - but it must be done correctly or it could kill your spider. Whatever you do, do not place a heat pad inside the tank, even under the sustrate - the spider will seek the warmth and burrow down to it and will not have any sense of being too hot. Spiders have sadly cooked themselves this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VaporRyder, post: 200887, member: 37475"] Key point. If you are using a heat pad, the thermometer probe placement and the thermometer itself becomes more important. IIRC, and it’s been years since I heated a reptile (mostly ceramic heating systems for snakes in wooden vivariums), you need to be measuring temperature at the hottest point. If the pad is on one side of the enclosure - it should never be on the bottom of the enclosure - the thermometer probe should be inside the tank on that side. Heat mats or pads should only be used with a thermostat - which itself will have a probe. The thermostat probe should be between the mat and the glass (or acrylic). As discussed, unless you live in a particularly cold house, it would probably be best to just use room heating or space heating. You can certainly use tank heating via a heat pad - but it must be done correctly or it could kill your spider. Whatever you do, do not place a heat pad inside the tank, even under the sustrate - the spider will seek the warmth and burrow down to it and will not have any sense of being too hot. Spiders have sadly cooked themselves this way. [/QUOTE]
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