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<blockquote data-quote="Vermis" data-source="post: 198865" data-attributes="member: 37487"><p>I thought I'd resurrect this topic than react to a newcomer's question and muddy the issue.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Since I started paying attention to online invert keeping again, I've seen people react to heatmats like someone admitted heating their Ts with a blowtorch. Is this the reason? Do people <em>still</em> put heat mats under the container? Shoot, back when I was a noob, 'side not bottom' was one of the first things I had drummed into me.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what I'd do without heatmats. It's good to know that Ts do nicely at centrally-heated room temp, but for me a comfortable room temperature might be somewhere about a balmy 16°C/61°F, and I don't have a seperate T room to heat. What I used to have was a makeshift cabinet with two big 40W mats stuck to the back, and a mat stat controlling them. Anything I set in front of them surely had a thermal gradient, and usually congregated towards the warm side.</p><p>These days I have a shelf on a billy bookcase, and a sheet of insulating foam with two 15W heat strips stuck to it. No stat! They cover 3/4 of the back of the shelf, warming half of the back of my one T's container, among other things. This irish heatwave that Phototoxin mentioned elsewhere is one of the few situations where I feel comfortable turning them off. Ironically, the current ambient temperature around the shelf - 27°C/81°F - is a degree or three higher than they can usually manage...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vermis, post: 198865, member: 37487"] I thought I'd resurrect this topic than react to a newcomer's question and muddy the issue. Since I started paying attention to online invert keeping again, I've seen people react to heatmats like someone admitted heating their Ts with a blowtorch. Is this the reason? Do people [I]still[/I] put heat mats under the container? Shoot, back when I was a noob, 'side not bottom' was one of the first things I had drummed into me. I don't know what I'd do without heatmats. It's good to know that Ts do nicely at centrally-heated room temp, but for me a comfortable room temperature might be somewhere about a balmy 16°C/61°F, and I don't have a seperate T room to heat. What I used to have was a makeshift cabinet with two big 40W mats stuck to the back, and a mat stat controlling them. Anything I set in front of them surely had a thermal gradient, and usually congregated towards the warm side. These days I have a shelf on a billy bookcase, and a sheet of insulating foam with two 15W heat strips stuck to it. No stat! They cover 3/4 of the back of the shelf, warming half of the back of my one T's container, among other things. This irish heatwave that Phototoxin mentioned elsewhere is one of the few situations where I feel comfortable turning them off. Ironically, the current ambient temperature around the shelf - 27°C/81°F - is a degree or three higher than they can usually manage... [/QUOTE]
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