sivuh5":c6ed6 said:I tried UTH's also and couldn't get anything to work. So I finally broke down and got a human heating pad at Rite-Aid Drugstore. It was the store brand, a cheap one with no auto shut off. I took and extra lid from another plastic bin and put that on the floor, then put the heating pad on top of that and the bin with the roaches directly onto the heating pad. I plugged the heating pad into a special powerstrip I got at Walmart (around $15 I think) that calls itself "the safest cord made" because it has some kind of circuit interrupter that if the item plugged in to it overheats it immediately cuts power. It may be a marketing ploy that's all BS, but I bought into it because I rationalized that I was doing everything I could to prevent a fire.
With the heating pad on high I've been able to keep the temps in my 22 gallon bin at around 87 - 90 degrees F.
Hope that helps. I couldn't get any of the other methods to work effectively, and I was afraid of heat tape because it seemed too technical.
Good luck!
Sue
sivuh5":a67ae said:You're welcome. Another option I've seen people try, which I almost decided on, I just using another aquarium and using the traditional uth on the bottom. They tape off the outside with duct tape or electrical tape to keep all the light out of the tank so it's nice and dark, and then just use a regular uth rated for the size of the tank. I liked the idea because the uth's are designed to run 24/7 and just seem like a safer heat source. BUT, the roach guys will tell you that the glass tanks do not hold heat and humidity as well as the Rubbermaid bins will. So it's a trade-off.
I also tried heat lamps above the bin, red so the roaches can't see it, but that didn't work either and took the humidity way down.
You may want to hold off on returning the uth's until you try the heating pad and are satisfied. Because you could always use them on another aquarium, say a 20 gallon, with the tape on the outside.
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