How does everyone heat their dubia colony?

[Dementeddogz]

Im curious and looking at redoing my set up. My colony has done well with your basic Zilla Temperature Controller/thermostat and exoterra heat cable. Unfortunately the other day my potbelly pig must have gotten bored and chewed the plug coming from the thermostat and Im needing to redo my set up. Right now its running on a large heat panel but Im not happy with it and just using it until i replace it. I was stuck between going back to the heat cable, or possibly trying a 2' strip of 11" flex watt? I use flexwatt in my incubator with good results, just never gave much thought to using in the roach bin and trying to decide what would be sufficient. I liked the cable because it wrapped around in layers in the bin and kept great temps, I was never fond of uth for the bin.

 

[Gail]

I have a UTH stuck to the side of the bin.

 

[Cowabunga]

I use to use heat wire and upgraded to flexwatt..

without jumbling your thread with a bunch of pictures my progress on it is here: viewtopic.php?f=76&t=163239

 

[Dementeddogz]

Interesting, I hadnt thought of putting it on the outside, was going to put along the sides, inside. The cable I always had inside wrapped around the inside, taped with foil tape and brought the wire and probe in through the side.

 

[spikeithard]

i use a CHE on the inside attached to the top of the bin. seems to do the trick.