New rack will be here tomorrow!

[Blaze1]

Nice rack after I pick up a couple more babies that I've been waiting for I think ill get one of these racks.

[emandkel]

Finally got everyone settled in and tubs cleaned, and changed all those I had on foam to coco-fiber. I had a couple of frogs that were starting to show signs of astivation (sp?) due to their skin was getting too dry even with misting a couple times a day.

Here's my rack setup for now -- forgive the mess on top of the racks, the top is handy for putting things on. The tubs do fog up at the front especially after a cleaning, I'm guessing because of the temperature change of the substrate versus the air. One tub I "drilled" a few holes in the front but it still fogs up.



The top 2 right compartments currently have 3 small Kritter Keepers housing baby/small pacman frogs. My intent is to try to find a smaller container that will fit in the tubs so I can give the little ones a bit more space but not stress them out with whole space of the tubs. Or I may try to come up with a divider.

There's two racks, side by side, 2 tubs wide by 4 tubs high. I have three milk crates underneath with a piece of plywood over them as a kind of a stand to get the racks off the floor a bit.

I have a Vivarium Electronics VE-300 proportional thermostat, which controls the temperature of the heat tape. I tried to hook up a basic outlet strip to the thermostat, then plugged both heat tape plugs into the outlet strip, but the new rack was getting about 10 degrees higher -- may need a special outlet strip? Right now the new one has a basic thermostat / heat controller (on/off type) and that fixed the issue but hope to use the other for both in the near future.

[Cwcuz2112]

Nice looking setup you have there .You shouldn't need a special outlet strip for the second rack if the wattage on the heat tape is the same .Try putting the thermostat probe on the tape of the second rack and see if that will adjust your temps .

[emandkel]

Nice looking setup you have there .You shouldn't need a special outlet strip for the second rack if the wattage on the heat tape is the same .Try putting the thermostat probe on the tape of the second rack and see if that will adjust your temps .

That's what I was told to try by a rep from the company. So, this morning I did just that, and have monitored temps today in the tubs -- the old one is running about 2 - 3 degrees lower than the new one.

I just got finished with the pacman frog feeding routine and all 14 ate their nightcrawlers tonight, most with enthusiasm! I've had a few very picky eaters lately and usually all do not eat so this was a good feeding night.