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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jake (Cascade)" data-source="post: 23219" data-attributes="member: 2407">They would not sell fan heaters if they were so life threatening, what I know about them is they do use a fair amount of power, but they do take the chill out the air. All depending on how many spiders you have to heat there is a couple of methods one can use. If you got a whole room of spiders then heating the room is more cost effect  than buying a heating pad for every cage. if you only have 2 or 10 spiders buying a couple of heating pads and sharing them between your spider cages will work.If you have space, buy a snake cage or glass tank and install a heating pad on the one side and place your spiders inside the cage or tank and you have a small heating box. It is advisable to run your heating pads off a thermostat for safety, as heating pads do tend to short out just keeps getting hotter.</blockquote>