Heating mat for pacman frog?

[Mentat]

Hello and welcome to FF! Please read this ASAP to learn about your frog needs: Frog Forum - Pacman and Horned Frogs - Ceratophrys - Care and Breeding. Recommend to heat the air couple in. above substrate to 82F now. Low temps can kill your frog and even long exposure to mid 70sF can cause permanent damage to frog's kidneys and lymph hearts resulting in edema .

Heat mats are inefficient when used on sides (can't attach to enclosure bottom with frogs); so recommend use a dome with built-in dimmer (Flucker's or others) and a 60W Ceramic Heat Emitter. You can cover the whole screen top in aluminum foil, trace the dome with a Sharpie and cut around circle making it around an in. wider. That will help retain heat and humidity in. Hopee this helps and good luck !

[mankind]

Hello and welcome to FF! Please read this ASAP to learn about your frog needs: Frog Forum - Pacman and Horned Frogs - Ceratophrys - Care and Breeding. Recommend to heat the air couple in. above substrate to 82F now. Low temps can kill your frog and even long exposure to mid 70sF can cause permanent damage to frog's kidneys and lymph hearts resulting in edema .

Heat mats are inefficient when used on sides (can't attach to enclosure bottom with frogs); so recommend use a dome with built-in dimmer (Flucker's or others) and a 60W Ceramic Heat Emitter. You can cover the whole screen top in aluminum foil, trace the dome with a Sharpie and cut around circle making it around an in. wider. That will help retain heat and humidity in. Hopee this helps and good luck !

Im going by your words, are you sure a heat emitter bulb is enough for the frog? my tank is a 10 gallon by the way. I would by both the emitter and the mat but why waste money on both yknow?

[Lija]

Ceramic heat emitter or infrared lamp are the best, you need a dimmer to control the amount of heat though, I use everything plugged into hydrotherms.
heat mats are not really useful and if with lamps you can reposition them any time, heat pad is one time use only, you need to get the biggest that can stick to the side and the glass might crack if sprayed directly.