Ok guys and gals.. After all my zoomed heating pads burned up cause of the crappy zoo med rheostat, I decided it was time to get a lil closer to their environment.. This a 40 gallon glass tank with 3 female leopard geckos...

I ordered flexwatt 17" for the 40 gallon enclosure, got stone tile from the zoo and I am making a large rock structure that has 4 hide spots in it...

At my work(zoo) the tanks in the back are all heated with kevlar pads(I cant afford)..they also use stone tile grouted into 30galon, 20 gallon and a few 55 gallon tanks.... The whole system is controled by computer and is setup to mimic natural season changes.. so right now their system is keeping the floor of the tanks at 85 degrees..

I was trying to copy this setup as much as possible.. I have laid the tile, still got to grout it in but using play sand as temp filler... I applied the flexwatt to the outside bottom of the tank and my 100 watt heat lamp up top.. Since i have changed from my old setup to this new one.. my warm side floor temp is 81.3 degrees, tank air temp is 80 degrees and cold side floor is 74 degrees...

bean farm said this tape would reach 90 degrees plus some, but my flexwatt is only going to 87 degrees(without a rheostat).

Do i just need a infrared ceramic heatlamp? Replace the 17" flexwatt with 11" or a few strips of 3" flexwatt??

What to do, what to do?

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