YearsOfDecay
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2010
- Messages
- 6
Okay, first things first - A big "Hi" to you all.
Now then, although a newbie when it comes to T's, I have experience with exotic pets as a former keeper of reptiles. The reasons for getting into T's....I've always wanted one, and at the moment I have no room to put my huge reptile viv lol!!!
So then, this is what I want to know.....On the spidershop website here in the UK, I noticed that on their page for setting up an enclosure using their starter package, it shows the heat mat being fixed to the INSIDE of the plastic tank (Exo Tera Faunariums)??? Surely this would be ill advised, as the potential for harming the spider is greatly increased (even if the mat is hidded behind a plastic plant), and also, heat mats don't actually heat the air, so shouldn't it therefore be fixed to the outside of the tank??? However, being plastic, would this then not be at risk of melting and worst case scenario catching fire???
Excuse my ignorance on this matter but I've always used ceramic heating elements in my viv controlled by a HabiStat pulse proportional stat so my knowledge on mats is limited and I'd like to get this sorted before I get my first T as I'm going for one of these starter packages just to get me up and running (husbandry wise).
Any help or advice on this will be greatly appreciated
Now then, although a newbie when it comes to T's, I have experience with exotic pets as a former keeper of reptiles. The reasons for getting into T's....I've always wanted one, and at the moment I have no room to put my huge reptile viv lol!!!
So then, this is what I want to know.....On the spidershop website here in the UK, I noticed that on their page for setting up an enclosure using their starter package, it shows the heat mat being fixed to the INSIDE of the plastic tank (Exo Tera Faunariums)??? Surely this would be ill advised, as the potential for harming the spider is greatly increased (even if the mat is hidded behind a plastic plant), and also, heat mats don't actually heat the air, so shouldn't it therefore be fixed to the outside of the tank??? However, being plastic, would this then not be at risk of melting and worst case scenario catching fire???
Excuse my ignorance on this matter but I've always used ceramic heating elements in my viv controlled by a HabiStat pulse proportional stat so my knowledge on mats is limited and I'd like to get this sorted before I get my first T as I'm going for one of these starter packages just to get me up and running (husbandry wise).
Any help or advice on this will be greatly appreciated