heat cable vs heat mat for heating rack

[satyr]

what you guys think? Cause i really cant decide. Help!!!

[mrhoyo]

Id say a tape, a long heat mat. Purely on the basis that its flat. Makes life easier

[kerryrep22]

gotta say heat cable all the way, 6m-23 quid, heated my whole snake rack, on 4 different shelves. if i had to buy a strip heat mat for each shelf would have been way more expensive! and works really well.

[snakekeeper]

I use heat cable as I can arrange it to heat up different parts of my tubs. I use it with all my vision rack systems.

[satyr]

chaz at snakes n adders said i would need to run 7 passes on each shelf to sufficiently heat a 50l rub. How does everyone else use it? How do you set the heat cable up?

[kerryrep22]

7 passes??, i and i fink most people do two?? and that keeps mine at 30 oc at the hot end fine. covers about a third of their tub.

[satyr]

what size rub do you use?

[kerryrep22]

at the mo ive got mine in 32 ltr, they are sub-adult and juvenile corns.