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Boredum/curiousity poll

Which side is your heater on?

  • Right (when facing tank)

    Votes: 20 69.0%

  • Left (when facing tank)

    Votes: 9 31.0%
  • Total voters
    29
Porro

Porro

New member
As the title suggests, I'm bored at work and had a question for you guys/gals out there. Which side of the tank is your warm side?

For whatever reason when I got my tank, I didn't hesistate to make the right (when facing the tank) side my warm side and the left side the cool side. And now that I think of it, it's actually more convienient for me to use the left as it's closer to the outlet........:confused:

Just kinda curious to see what percentage (50/50 maybe?) of people use the right side as warm and the left side as cool. Breeders with racks don't really apply to this question but if you do have a "show" tank or two by all means participate in the survey!
 
Well, in both my racks the heat is along the back. My original 20L has a UTH on the right side. Left is just weird!
 
All but one of my snakes are in racks, but the one who is not has the heat on the left. My son just picked up a cal king and I set up a tank for him with the heat on the left, which he promptly removed and put it on the right. I am left handed, he is right handed, not sure if that contributed to the preference.
 
I have 3 tanks. Two have the hot side on the L and one has the hot side on the R (but it came to me that way from CL).
 
I didn't vote because mine are mixed. Some are in a rack, some are in other types of vivs. Of those not in racks, they're almost evenly divided between heat on right and on left.

I'm one of those right-handed people who probably should have been left-handed. Yeah, I guess I'm weird at every level! lol
 
Mine is on the right as well, even my bearded dragon has his heat on the right side. Maybe its becuase im right handed?
 
yeah, as mentioned above, I was thinking that it might have something to do with right handed/left handedness.

I am right handed myself and it does seem weird for me to move the heat to the left lol.
 
All of my tanks heat is set up on the right side. It's funny because this morning I was setting up a tank and thought of setting up the heat on the left side because its closer to the outlet, but decided that would be too weird and put the heat on the right.
 
Neither

I use a shelf that has been converted into a type of rack with heat tape at the back. I also use tubs instead of tanks. So while I could not answer your poll I hope I answered your question :)
 
Porro said:
Just kinda curious to see what percentage (50/50 maybe?) of people use the right side as warm and the left side as cool. Breeders with racks don't really apply to this question but if you do have a "show" tank or two by all means participate in the survey!
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Sorry for the double post but I do have one tub too big for the shelf and her heat is on the left side because its closer to the outlet lol!
 
Ours is on the left side. I am right handed, but choose the left side because of the way the tank is set up. My father in law used to keep fish and he gave us our tank, so when we got it, it already had a hole cut into the upper left side of the glass, I assume the hole was put there for his tubing/pumps. Anyways my husband made a cover for the hole with just a small notch cut into it so that way we are able to run the probe wires through the hole, but it covers the rest of the hole so we don't end up with an escape.

We would have probably chosen the left side anyways because of the cords. Our tanks right side is visible when you open the front door, and I wouldn't want a bunch a wiring to be the first thing you see. Although I would like to note that we are obsessive about our wiring and it is very neat and orderly.
 
Phinius my 6 year old big guy is the only one in tank... I actually just had to replace his UTH last week because his finally gave out... anywho... its on the right.

My Rack that the rest of my crew are in it has Heat Tape along the back... in the middle... soooo that one qualifies for option C. none of the above ;)
 
4 out of 6 are on the right, one of the two that have it on the left came to me that way and the other one I was not paying enough attention when I put it on, which really ticked me off!!!

I am right handed so to me it just makes sense that the heater should be on the right.
 
Mine is on the left. I didn't really think about it when I put it on. I guess I was thinking of the temperature gradient going from high to low, left to right? Now it's bugging me, thanks a lot guys!
 
im right handed, and on one of my tanks I put it on the right, and one on the left. guess I don't really have a prefrence :shrugs:
 
For any of my herp cages, including the tank I'm setting up for a corn, I have heat on the left. The gecko has a UTH and lamp on her left side of her cage, the boas have a space heater next to the left side of their enclosure, and I just set up the corn's tank yesterday and automatically attached the UTH on the left side....

I am right handed too, but it just seems 'normal' to me to have the heat on the left side...right just seems strange...but then, I think I too think of it as 'warm to cool' so if one was reading that, warm is on the left and cool is on the right...I don't think of the gradient as cool to warm...so maybe that is part of the subconscious difference....

That said, I just checked and all 3 of my aquariums the heater is on the right half of the tank (most are underwater heaters, so middle - right), instead of the left...and that seems right for those. So I apparently set up fish tanks opposite of herp tanks...lol
 
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