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The other question I have is about my heatpad, I actually have it under the plexi bottom of the terrarium (there is space so the heat won't make a fire) it's only a 7w pad, the instructions to it said not to have more than 1 cm substrate covering the heatpad, so I follow that, but then a thought struck me, my frog can't burrow there now can he? ... that seems pointless considering that the heatpad covers 28x28 cm of the frogs space (It's not even half of his space but anyway). I guess what I want answered is why they produce heatpads if you can't use substrate over it? If I put it on the side the heat wouldn't be as effective now would it? Considering heat is ascending.
From keeping hermit crabs, we habitually keep the heating pads mounted on the side of the tank, half in, half out of the substrate. But a typical crab tank probably has a bit more substrate than a frog tank, putting the pad a bit more in the air. Heat lamps muck with the humidity and you can use heat rocks with crabs. Seems like the issues should be the same.