we had a viv catch fire a few months back at 4am in the morning due to a mat not being on a stat. luckily i was up with the little un and caught it in time.

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Hey tombraider, long time no speak!! That was more th>n lucky!one of my mats melted the veneer on the viv when it wasn't on a stat...kinda yellowy gluey stuff all over the underside when i was cleaning it out one day.Foolish not to have a statIs your wee one still a midnight wanderer?!

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1 royal python
1 creamsicle corn
1 Blue Merle Collie
1 Kitten

Hes settled down now thanks lol but im pretty glad he kept me awake that night. I had been smelling a weird vinegary smell coming from chelles room all day but put it down to her spilling something and just not cleaning it up right.

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No way! it's mad really that they are not fitted with stats. IMO, ppl dont always buy stats because they are relatively expensive, for what they are, and the parts they actually consist of. Dare I say overpriced??

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1 royal python
1 creamsicle corn
1 Blue Merle Collie
1 Kitten

All our other mats are on stats but this one was in with chelles bosc and because it was under loads of soil and wood chip substrate she didnt bother with one. I think it either over heated with there being no air flow or some of the wood chippings in the substrate pierced it. She was very lucky the bosc was ok because the room was just a thick cloud of smoke and all the lower layers of wood chipping where smouldering red and crackling with sparks.

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