Dubia and Heat Tape

[CHAMpion]

I just recently purchased 50 dubai from a local reptile expo for five dollars : ). I have them in a ten gallon steralite container with dog food egg cartons and a bowl of wet papertowels to get water drink from. My only issue is with my heat tape. It's my frist time using it but I thought I would purchase it due to the fact that it's effective and supposed to be very efficient. Thats where I ran into my problem, the heat tape seems to only keep the temp of the container to a temp of 74 degrees! the heat tape is a 2 foot section of 11" wide heat tape. I can only imagine that it's not getting enough current. I can physically feel that it's heating up but I've tried not even using an extension cord and plugging it straight into the wall but still no luck. The connection may be bad as well but they were the connections that came from bigappleherp.com from their 6 foot cord kit. I reconnected one of the connection and that didnt seem to help. Let me know what you think.

Ryan

 

[Djscifee]

good deal for those.

but for my set up i only have a 24hour heating pad under my tuppleware container. and it keeps the tempurature at about 90 at 6in up and the floor is about 108. but they arent on the floor of it much anyways.. and theyve started creating babies like crazy!

 

[CHAMpion]

Yeah i know those work great I just heard so much on the leo forums that the heat tape is the thing to use for dubia. Hopefully some one has a tip or some experience and can help me out.