Stacking Vivs - And insulating them.

[crawshaws]

Hi everyone,

I am stacking my vivs, which are heated with Ceramics. The problem i face is how i am going to insulate them so the heat from the bottom viv does not over heat the floor of the one on the top.

Currently i have some rather thick (1+ inch) polystyrene sheeting. between them and this works perfectly but looks unsightly and is breaks away on the corners and makes a mess.

So, what do you use? any pics?

Thanks.

[Schip]

I use individual dimmer stats for each layer so that they are adjusted to their own temps including any moving up from lower vivs works well that way and probably easier than trying to insulate against the heat rising.

[crawshaws]

thanks for your suggestion Schip. Anybody have any other suggestions of what they do?

[Nismo75]

Other than having individual stats for each viv could you not leave a gap inbtween vivs?. I have a double stack viv for my corns and I have the problem of the top viv always being a couple of degrees hotter than the bottom viv.

[shrek]

put a couple of pieces of wood between which leaves an air gap so no heat transfer

___________bottom of top viv
__ __
|__| |__| - blocks of wood between
___________top of bottom viv

[crawshaws]

Did exactly that. Ill get pics soon.

[Jaz_knos]

Glass tealight candel holders,
About half an inch thick and very sturdy if you look around.
Tesco do quite nice ones, so do Asda. About 25p each, so 6 (each corner plus support in the middle) is cheap compared.
Also looks really good if you backlight behind your vivs with colour change bulb