UTH controll without thermostat

[ozymandias]

im woundering how can i control my vivs floor heat with out a thermostat

moving the UTH further away from under the tank or by putting a insulator layer in between the UTH and the viv ????

HELP

 

[danielle]

You can buy a cheap rheostat at wal-mart, target, home depot, and places like that. For now you can try only heating a small portion and adding more substrate, but when they burrow not even that will help much.

 

[Nanci]

you can put a heavy floor tile in the viv, over the UTH.

 

[ozymandias]

you can put a heavy floor tile in the viv, over the UTH.

my viv is a glass tank for a baby corn and the UTH is on the outside of the viv so does the floor tile thing still workor will it take to much heat from the UTH

and does any thermostat/rheostat for any electrical product ??

 

[Lennycorn]

im woundering how can i control my vivs floor heat with out a thermostat

You can not control something you have no conrtol of.

moving the UTH further away from under the tank or by putting a insulator layer in between the UTH and the viv ???

That will help reduce that maxamun amount of heat that the UTH can produce.

my viv is a glass tank for a baby corn and the UTH is on the outside of the viv so does the floor tile thing still workor will it take to much heat from the UTH

That the problem, you can not control the UTH to give you the proper temps of 80 -85 degrees.

 

[sacrifice.theory]

Get a thermostat asap.
Some UTH's can get well over 100 degrees.
Better safe than sorry.

 

[Nanci]

my viv is a glass tank for a baby corn and the UTH is on the outside of the viv so does the floor tile thing still workor will it take to much heat from the UTH

I'm not sure. I have never tried it- just read of it. The UTH, unregulated, can reach 130F though- I have seen it. It's a cheap thing to try till you get preferably a thermostat or even a cheap lamp dimmer...