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Old 20-11-2009, 08:01 PM
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Question heat-mat under substrate?

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I would like to own a crestie and need to heat the tank in winter, and I was just wandering....... can you put heat mats under substrate?
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Old 20-11-2009, 08:03 PM
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Check the instructions
Most heat mats state only a few millimeters of substrate.
If the substrate is an insulator then you are wasting your time and leckie.
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With cresties its a good idea to have a thick substrate to help keep humidity up so a heat mat under the substrate would probably just be a waste of electricity. What i do is put the heat mat on the side of the tank in the top corner on the outside. Assuming you are using a glass tank that is. hope that helps.
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Old 20-11-2009, 08:23 PM
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Yeah you will most likely be using an exo terra for the cresty so best sticking it at the back
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