Quote Originally Posted by Sublime View Post
Yeah no problem; sorry I'm typing this on my iphone if the responses come late.

I have a 22 gallon rubbermaid roughneck tote with a medium 30-40 gallon zoo-med under tank heater stuck to the bottom (also bought the zoo-med rheostat to adjust the heat, it's on max right now). It takes up pretty much the whole bottom floor of the bin. It's around 100-105 at the bottom, temperature drops as they move up the egg flats a the heat is dispersed throughout.

If you are still having a hard time keeping the temperatures high with an outside heat mat, flukers makes an internal heat mat that can be placed in the bottom of the bin. That should definitely heat the ambient air up in there for you. Other than that all I can say is just try to keep them in a warmish-area with insulation also allowing air flow to come in through the ventilation cut out. Some people will wrap a fairly large heat mat around the sides where the egg flats will be, this will also work too.

If you want to stick the heat mat to the side of the tote or bottom and that mat doesn't have an adhesive end you can go to a local hardware store and pick up some ul listed foil tape for heat transfer.
I was actually thinking about using those electric heaters for backs and necks and just put that under the tote. Think those are pretty cheap at walmart would that work you think? Thanks again for the advice I really appreciate it!