Large Heat Mat & Fake Grass/Astroturf Questions?

Actually you could have the best of both worlds with the pebbles.


So what you can do is get a tile, flip it over to where you put the tile glue, on the rough side and somehow attatch the pebbles ontto the tile and put the tile ontop of the heat mat / cord .


That way the stones wont move around and you can just take it out to clean it if need be?


Could work. ^_^


Also my most favouriter thing in that tank is definitely the skull ornament.

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Fabulous looking enclosure, i can see a lot of pride has gone into the building of this reptile palace and i would not change a thing.
Beans is spot on with his thinking on using a pebble base such as a tile or tiles on top of the heat mat with the pebbles glued on them with tile glue, just for safety sake put some bamboo bbq skewers under the tile/tiles so there is an air gap.
Using the idea put forward by Beans would stop the snake from moving the pebbles around, as far as the thermo probe is concerned i think between the heat mat and tile would suffice. .........................Ron

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Could you use Aqua safe silicon to attach the pebbles to the tile?

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GilesColey said:

Thanks Beans, I never thought of using both and it makes sense when it comes to cleaning and keep the temp constant which is really handy


I can only see 2 little obstacles


1) I have bought the below heat mat (quite large and will cover just under 1/3 of the floor) so I would need a fairly large tile to cover this area? I would obviously need to cut it to fit the area nicely. Obviously multiple tiles wont be suitable. Any suggestion on where to find this sort of tile?? I will have a look at Bunnings but I cant recall seeing them this size


Habistat Heat Mat
740mm x 280mm, 29" x 11"


2) What glue to use that is safe? But Ajwill has covered that below?




Thanks Ron, appreciate the comments, Im pretty happy with how it turned out for my first shot and doing it.


Thanks, I like the bamboo skewer idea as well, would putting the probe on top of the heat-mat but under the tile not give it an unrealistic reading as it would be a lot warmer there than it would be above the pebbles where she would be lying. Just curious? Could you just lie the probe on top of the pebbles? Is there anything wrong with doing that?


My other thought was when placing the pebbles on the tile, leave a thin passage down the middle, just wide enough for the probe to fit in, I can just slide the probe out when its time to clean the tile/pebbles...thoughts??






Thanks, I was curious about this as well, would that be ok to use? I would really use as little as possible to hold the pebble in place? and leave it to dry for a few days before putting it in

Any other suggestions on what I can use?

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GilesColey said:

Thanks Wallo, appreciate the comments

Will let you know which way I go and will post some pics

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