Trogdorpheus
Juvie Member
I don't really know how much those UTH's run, but you might be able to find a human heating pad (one WITHOUT the auto-shutoff) and use that also. Might be cheaper. Plus, if you keep the roach bin close enough to the Beardie enclosure(maybe underneath? if you have a stand for it), it may get enough ambient heat just from that...
Something else to consider... if your school is heated via radiators or something of the sort where heat is concentrated somewhere in the room, then diffuses through the room... just turn off your roach bin heater and move it closer to the heat source. Granted you're in Texas, so I dunno how often any heat would be on. I originally wanted to keep my roaches in the room where the hot water heater was... but parents didn't bite on that- something about "If they escape... they're crawling in YOUR bed, not MY house) so now they're in my closet.
Side note: escapees are extremely rare, only one I've had out of the bin was one that I dropped. Found him 2 minutes later in a dark corner... he was fed to my dragon immediately as punishment for running away.
Something else to consider... if your school is heated via radiators or something of the sort where heat is concentrated somewhere in the room, then diffuses through the room... just turn off your roach bin heater and move it closer to the heat source. Granted you're in Texas, so I dunno how often any heat would be on. I originally wanted to keep my roaches in the room where the hot water heater was... but parents didn't bite on that- something about "If they escape... they're crawling in YOUR bed, not MY house) so now they're in my closet.
Side note: escapees are extremely rare, only one I've had out of the bin was one that I dropped. Found him 2 minutes later in a dark corner... he was fed to my dragon immediately as punishment for running away.