How To Use A Heat Mat For Reptiles

Although through a layer of material the heat from the heat mat can affect reptiles when the temperature is not controlled.

How to use a heat mat for reptiles.

You will also of course need to remove the suction cup from the probe or if it cannot be removed move it away from the probe and just don t use it. Feb 10 2010 5 gonzo. This product was not made for heating reptile enclosures and it tends to get too hot for the animals. Heat mats are fairly safe easy to install and for the most part they re reliable.

The reptile heat mat is a heating device usually located at the bottom of the tank so reptiles seem to be in direct contact with that heat source. The main problem being that they only produce a gentle warmth. A chick is only going to have its feet in contact with the mat. Also a reptile is going to lay flat on the heat mat rock floor and absorb the heat.

This means they can get burnt very easily when lying on a heat mat. From there i stick the mat down doing my best to run the probe cord down to where the power line is on my heat mat. Pro reptile keepers sometimes use heat tape or flexwatt. They should never be used for bearded dragons or geckos as these reptiles can t feel heat through their stomachs.

The mat would have to be really hot in order to warm up the air around the chick as opposed to just warming up the floor last edited. A 15 w mat in use for 12 hours a day costs 2 cents per day. The standard piece of equipment used to heat a vivarium is a heat mat. Technically they produce ultra long wavelength infra red heat.

Heat mats produce a gentle heat that under normal use will not burn your animal. The problem with heat mats. For heat mats you can use a on off or mat thermostat. I do this mostly to keep things tidy but it really doesn t matter too much.

What about heat tape. There is three leads that come off your thermostat one is the plug another is the plug socket for your heat source and lastly there is the probe. Or round the clock use is only 4 cents a day or 1 20 a month. They have been designed specifically for use with reptiles.

Heating is one of the most crucial aspects of caring for reptiles and amphibians. Most invertebrate keepers and even many snake owners use low wattage heat mats to warm their vivariums. Currently there are heat mats with a thermostat available but there are. Now plug the thermostat into your plug socket which should light up the light.

My corn is in a 4ft viv heated with a stat controlled heat mat which is on the bottom covered with a layer of newspaper i have heavy pebble like stones around the edge of the mat to stop him getting under it stat probe and digital thermom and then covered over with a layer of aspen which is thinner over the heat mat and thicker towards the cool end never had a problem and my stat controls.