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CHAMpion
Member Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Omaha, Ne
Posts: 131
Dubia and Heat Tape
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I posted this in chameleon forums and I wasn't getting much of a response so I was hoping you guys could help me out.
I just recently purchased 50 dubai from a local reptile expo for five dollars : ). I have them in a ten gallon steralite container with dog food egg cartons and a bowl of wet papertowels to get water drink from. My only issue is with my heat tape. It's my frist time using it but I thought I would purchase it due to the fact that it's effective and supposed to be very efficient. Thats where I ran into my problem, the heat tape seems to only keep the temp of the container to a temp of 74 degrees! the heat tape is a 2 foot section of 11" wide heat tape. I can only imagine that it's not getting enough current. I can physically feel that it's heating up but I've tried not even using an extension cord and plugging it straight into the wall but still no luck. The connection may be bad as well but they were the connections that came from bigappleherp.com from their 6 foot cord kit. I reconnected one of the connection and that didnt seem to help. Let me know what you think.
Ryan
CHAMpion
Member Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Omaha, Ne
Posts: 131
Dubia and Heat Tape
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I posted this in chameleon forums and I wasn't getting much of a response so I was hoping you guys could help me out.
I just recently purchased 50 dubai from a local reptile expo for five dollars : ). I have them in a ten gallon steralite container with dog food egg cartons and a bowl of wet papertowels to get water drink from. My only issue is with my heat tape. It's my frist time using it but I thought I would purchase it due to the fact that it's effective and supposed to be very efficient. Thats where I ran into my problem, the heat tape seems to only keep the temp of the container to a temp of 74 degrees! the heat tape is a 2 foot section of 11" wide heat tape. I can only imagine that it's not getting enough current. I can physically feel that it's heating up but I've tried not even using an extension cord and plugging it straight into the wall but still no luck. The connection may be bad as well but they were the connections that came from bigappleherp.com from their 6 foot cord kit. I reconnected one of the connection and that didnt seem to help. Let me know what you think.
Ryan
