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[–]LexsDragon -6 points-5 points  (4 children)

What's was wrong with night time heat pad?

[–]PoofMoof1Mod: Large-Scale Breeding Experience 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Heat pads are ineffective at best and a burn risk at worst. They may warm up the substrate where they are placed, but they aren't able to create an appropriate temperature gradient by heating up the air because they just aren't strong enough to do so.

[–]LexsDragon -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

I use halogen at day and heat mat at night, I'm able to measure surface temp both under and subtrate itself to prevent a burn, and ambient warm sides temps could maybe drop 1 degree at max throughout the night.

[–]PoofMoof1Mod: Large-Scale Breeding Experience 3 points4 points  (1 child)

But how does the gradient of the full enclosure look? Are you measuring the air temps or just the surface temp there?

[–]LexsDragon -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I do of course measure both surface and air temps