aerliss
Achatina immaculata
Posts: 281
|
Post by aerliss on Jul 26, 2010 16:29:03 GMT
The weather up here has gone nuts. It can be cold, wet and windy when I leave for work and when I get home it's shorts and T-shirt weather. While the weather was doing it's nice, stable cold thing my snails got on just fine with the mats all switched on, but these fluctuations are causing heating, or rather cooling problems.
Soooo. Recommendations? The mat I want it for is a 16 watt, 26.5x28 ExoTerra mat and as far as I can tell, ExoTerra don't do thermostats >:/
|
|
|
Post by lee2211 on Jul 26, 2010 18:00:27 GMT
Get a Microclimate 100 mat-stat. You set it to a certain temperature, and it'll turn off when it reaches it, and turn back on when it's dropped about a degree below it.
Just to tell you, you should always have a thermostat on any heatmat, otherwise they just keep heating up, and they get to really ridiculous temperatures.
|
|
aerliss
Achatina immaculata
Posts: 281
|
Post by aerliss on Jul 26, 2010 22:52:27 GMT
I've not had that problem. All mine stay within a touching limit, as in they're never too hot to touch. But thanks, that's actually the one I was looking at before I went 'arg, too many!'
|
|
|
Post by lee2211 on Jul 27, 2010 13:14:34 GMT
Well, you could for a Habistat one, but they tend to be more expensive and a Microclimate does exactly the same thing, for less
|
|
aerliss
Achatina immaculata
Posts: 281
|
Post by aerliss on Jul 27, 2010 23:31:22 GMT
Microclimate it is then. Thanks guys!
|
|
|
Post by lee2211 on Aug 13, 2010 17:58:16 GMT
No problem, hope it helps
|
|