Heating mat for pacman frog?

[FwoGiZ]

Heat mat is a big no no... so is a heat rock!!! spraying hot water is useless too....
people brought up all the options to your solution... and 60-70 is a matter of weeks before your frog dies. It's like I'd toss you outside at 10Celcius without a jacket for weeks.. you'll survive a while but you'll break down at some point.

-Portable baseboard room heater (best way, expensive on electricity bill)
-ceramic heat emitter (pricy but best quality of heat for just one tank)
-red tint incandescent bulb (can stay on at night, cheap and efficient but will dry up a 10gal real fast)


Heat mat cannot burn a frog tho, I don't understand why people keep saying that eheh. the one for frogs are 4W... this is completely useless waste of money as this doesn't pull ANY heat at all... it's very minimal... but the thing you have to understand is frog burrows when they're hot and want to cooldown... so you mess that up for em big time with a heatmat.
heatmat are "good" for animals that don't burrow like geckos, toads, dart frogs. ultimately using it right under a false bottom vivarium will give you best results but in all seriousness, they're a complete waste of money for what they are.

Just get a good lamp and ceramic heat emitter

[DVirginiana]

The reason people keep saying heat mats can burn a frog is because they can. The most commonly sold ones in the US (idk about Canada) can easily get up to 100 degrees, and up to 120 if wires break or something else causes them to go haywire. The small ones may not get quite that hot, but they can still get hot enough to burn/damage a frog. There's nothing wrong with using a heat pad on the side of the tank as long as you're regulating it with a thermostat. It can help boost heat, but probably won't be enough on its own to keep ambient temps around 80.

[FwoGiZ]

The reason people keep saying heat mats can burn a frog is because they can. The most commonly sold ones in the US (idk about Canada) can easily get up to 100 degrees, and up to 120 if wires break or something else causes them to go haywire. The small ones may not get quite that hot, but they can still get hot enough to burn/damage a frog. There's nothing wrong with using a heat pad on the side of the tank as long as you're regulating it with a thermostat. It can help boost heat, but probably won't be enough on its own to keep ambient temps around 80.

That is interesting... what brands do you guys have? or which one are known to fail?
I've tested 3 dif brans with around 20 dif mats... none of em could ever burn anything, hell I even came to the conclusion they don't even pull enough heat to be any useful for the price you have to pay.

[DVirginiana]

A common one in chain pet stores is zoomed. They're made to be usable for many different species so the temps can get really hot. The thermostat I've got attached to my ball python's came unstuck while I was cleaning yesterday and it took maybe an hour for it to get to 96 degrees (luckily I caught it before it went any higher). But that brand can get hot enough to burn a python, so it's definitely capable of burning a frog.
Another problem is that the internal wires can be damaged by bending or something like that.

[mankind]

Heat mat is a big no no... so is a heat rock!!! spraying hot water is useless too....
people brought up all the options to your solution... and 60-70 is a matter of weeks before your frog dies. It's like I'd toss you outside at 10Celcius without a jacket for weeks.. you'll survive a while but you'll break down at some point.

-Portable baseboard room heater (best way, expensive on electricity bill)
-ceramic heat emitter (pricy but best quality of heat for just one tank)
-red tint incandescent bulb (can stay on at night, cheap and efficient but will dry up a 10gal real fast)


Heat mat cannot burn a frog tho, I don't understand why people keep saying that eheh. the one for frogs are 4W... this is completely useless waste of money as this doesn't pull ANY heat at all... it's very minimal... but the thing you have to understand is frog burrows when they're hot and want to cooldown... so you mess that up for em big time with a heatmat.
heatmat are "good" for animals that don't burrow like geckos, toads, dart frogs. ultimately using it right under a false bottom vivarium will give you best results but in all seriousness, they're a complete waste of money for what they are.

Just get a good lamp and ceramic heat emitter

ALRIGHT GUYS

I bought the heat emitter and infared heat light (red) but the flukers lamp does nnot have a dimmer, its just an on/off switch, using the maximum 75 watts it produces. would that be a problem? cause i usually see lamps using the full power of the lights. would that do any harm to the frogs eyesight orcan they even see the bbright red light? also is it okay that the heat lamp is resting on the lid screen of should i let it hover over it?

[mankind]

i honestly dont trust the light on for too long lol, probably im just new to this

[Lija]

Home Depot, they have a light dimmer for 9-10$

frogs don't see red light, it's ok, but watch for temps. You need 50w, stronger lamps will heat the tank too much the dimmer will solve that problem.

[mankind]

Home Depot, they have a light dimmer for 9-10$

frogs don't see red light, it's ok, but watch for temps. You need 50w, stronger lamps will heat the tank too much the dimmer will solve that problem.

thanks ill go to home depot by tonight, ill post update plus the frog iteself.

[mankind]

thanks to errone that helped, got the light dimmer and placed it to 45 watts with red heat light.


Honestly didnt know they bite hard, Java's an Albino Pacman sitting there at the bottom right