Anyone Use Heat Tape In Their Incubator?

[EAST TEXAROO]

Anyone using the heat tape like what they use for incubating reptiles and heating reptile enclosures? Hows it working for you? Are light bulbs better? I am building a bator out of a dorm size mini fridge and if I use a bulb I can only fit 2 turners but if I use the tape I can get 3 turner in there. I dont like how close the bulb would be to the lowest rack, figure it would cook them.

 

[walkswithdog]

I use flexwatt heat tape on the bottom of my mini fridge and an under cabinet puck light, I like them because they have a smaller foot print and they're pretty hot (have to be positioned so they don't overheat the liner of the fridge.

It works well, the light adds a quicker response time to temp shifts I think.

However, I'm going to remove the puck light this summer to see because it does make the very to shelf unusable - so I'm going to line one more shelf with flexwatt. And see how that goes.

My first use of the flexwatt only on the floor generated too slow a response to the thermostat and the swings were too wide. So not enough tape area.

Puck lights work alone but heat tape really helps keep a very stable environment.