Post by endlesstuesday on Jul 11, 2016 9:53:25 GMT
Hello all, recently one of my Achatina Fulica Charlie has been pretty inactive and not eating so the vet recommended I get a heat mat to up the tank temperature (currently around 20 degrees) so I did, however I don't know what to do about the set up.
I have two tanks so I brought a large heat mat to spread between them both underneath, but then I started looking online and found that a lot of websites reckon the heat mat should go on the side of the tank. Is that true? Because the RSPCA says that putting it under just half the tank is the correct way to set it up, the pet store also told me this and so did the vet, but a lot of snail owners say differently. I'm pretty confused.
If yes, I have another problem, one of my tanks is too low to put anything on the side. It's an incredibly long plastic tank but it's very shallow (I keep my little albino ones in there) and none of the available heat mats I've seen would be small enough. The heat mat I've currently got is also too large for just the big tank. I don't know what to do with it. I was thinking of putting it up the side of the big glass tank and underneath the long one, would this set up work? Any help would be much appreciated, Charlie is very ill so I'm trying everything and anything to get him active and eating again.
I have two tanks so I brought a large heat mat to spread between them both underneath, but then I started looking online and found that a lot of websites reckon the heat mat should go on the side of the tank. Is that true? Because the RSPCA says that putting it under just half the tank is the correct way to set it up, the pet store also told me this and so did the vet, but a lot of snail owners say differently. I'm pretty confused.
If yes, I have another problem, one of my tanks is too low to put anything on the side. It's an incredibly long plastic tank but it's very shallow (I keep my little albino ones in there) and none of the available heat mats I've seen would be small enough. The heat mat I've currently got is also too large for just the big tank. I don't know what to do with it. I was thinking of putting it up the side of the big glass tank and underneath the long one, would this set up work? Any help would be much appreciated, Charlie is very ill so I'm trying everything and anything to get him active and eating again.
