heya guys,

Whilst taking down my two exo terra faunarium vivs to feed my black milks,i noticed, TO MY ABSOLUTEL HORROR that both vivs had holes the size of my fist in the base of them.As i went to touch the heat mat,it was absolutely piping hot, and had subsequently melted the base of the vivs. I spent the evening in shock,checking over my precious milks, and being so grateful neither were burnt, or that the house hadnt caught fire. The heat mat was by Euro-zoo, we bought a load of them at the Hamm show in March. Im not saying the company are faulty,it was likely it was a faulty fluke heat mat (which up to present because of the warm weather i hadnt needed to use). Please please check your heat mats, i wouldnt want anyone to go through the shock i did.

Thalie

Did you not attach it to a mat stat??

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no wasnt necessary as only 14watts and coz the milks like it cool it only touched about 3inches of the viv...:-(

I have seen sh*t happen with heatmats before, as have many ppl on the forum, who attach all mats to stats to stop problems like you have experienced. Sorry you found out the hard way

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1 Blue Merle Collie
1 Kitten

All heatmats should have a stat attached regardless of the wattage.

Lucky you caught it before it turned really nasty.

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lol clearly was

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seen this a lot in the past..
unless you have real old tired heat mats you have to use a stat really.
i have some that are almostdead and dont use a stat, but they are literally chuckin no heat and are about 6 inches from the tubs they are heating

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And this is a definite case that shows exactly WHY thermostats are absolutely required no matter what wattage the heat mat is.

An unregulated heat source is exactly that - not regulated - and will get as hot as it is going to get.

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One day everyone will learn that stats are NOT an optional extra, and hopefully not the hard way like this.
Not everyone will be this lucky...

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Thankyou for putting this up, I think it does take a thread like this sometimes to make people,stop think and check. Shocking really as to how hot mats can get un-statted.

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