Electric Bill outta control???? HELP with heat!

[DonLisk]

They will create a warm area close to where the pad is placed. Usually place on the side of a tank will allow a place where the frog can go to warm up and then the opposite side of the tank will be slightly cooler.

I don't use them on my tanks since my room averages 73 and higher so my lighting in the day brings the temps up to 79 to 81 on average.

[BG]

My problem is not the temps its the lights. My frogs are happy, they don't need anything. The temp in the room is 77-79, the humidity is 65%. Its my turtles, and timor monitor,and fish tanks, This month its 273 bucks .

[Leefrogs]

well each light, heater, will show it's watts. If it's a 25w bulb it takes 25 w an hour. There are 1000 watts in a Kw, and kw ratings are on your bill,

On my bill 505 kw used is bout 100 bucks. And I have 5 heat pads and 12 tanks.

[Grrrit]

i would contact Ron at alphaprobreeders . com. Another guy and myself converted all of our tank lighting (for frogs) to the solarmax H.E. lights made by deep blue. they are reef lights but they come with 10K 13w T5 bulbs for a 48" fixture. plants do amazing and they still show off all the great colors. and i believe a 48" light is around $50.00. cut my bill down quite a bit.
as far as turtles and lizards, they would still need their species specific lights but this may be doable for uvb for the turtles although they would still need uva baskinglights.

[cowbully]

i would contact Ron at alphaprobreeders . com. Another guy and myself converted all of our tank lighting (for frogs) to the solarmax H.E. lights made by deep blue..

thank you.. I think this is my next step.. thank you for the advice. especially now i know they come in 48" they will work great for my new white lipped viv