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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 226515" data-attributes="member: 29323">For your T's sake, please don't ever use under tank heating. In nature under soil heating is non existent, so a tarantulas natural instinct, if it gets too warm, is to burrow into the cool soil. Thus, if we use under tank heating, we put our T's at significant risk of being cooked alive. As they do not understand what is happening & burrowing during heat is a natural survival instinct. If you really feel compelled to use a heat mat, place it across part of a side, or back & above substrate level.  Give your T a choice of warmer or cooler.</blockquote>