Fluker's Premium Heat Mat is safe for all reptiles and amphibians and easy to use. Its durable construction provides uniform and evenly distributes heat. This product operates at a constant 100 degrees Fahrenheit and may be used inside or outside terrariums.
Available in 5 sizes:
IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS:
When using Fluker's Premium Heat Mat, be sure to follow these basic safety precautions:
I will never use anything else! I have 3 different species usuing this UTH and it is the best! I have money hooked up to a thermometer of course so I can control the temperature but the oldest one last about 3 years which is pretty good in my opinion considering it was on 24/4
Works great. It heats to 100 degrees and won't go over like a heat rock. I put a small cloth over the one I use. Even if Baby Girl (9 year old beardie) touches it directly she won't get burned. Other companies - cough, zoo med - have heat mats that heat to seemingly unknown temps and those are the ones that are fixed temp without benefit of changes throughout a 24 hour cycle (but they will still recommend a temp controller) Now, you have a universal remote to a tv what never had no remote in the first place. It is an absurdly outdated concept, technology, application and business model which must be 'screw the customer and their filthy beasts'. Case in point, my neighbor just got a ball python from a friend and he got the tank and all accessories. The heat mat was a Zoo Med. The temp gauge read 79 degrees as it was on the outside of the glass. Cleaning the tank showed a spider web crack on the bottom right where the heat mat was stuck to the bottom. They put out too serious a heat for someone with 1 reptile and no tank. Baby Girl has run of the house with hot spots set up so she can recharge if need be but come May, the entire house is her hot spot. The Fluker heat mat won't burn Baby Girl while offering digestive heat. The mat can be put in a tank or on a table or on the floor and no worries about furniture catching fire eventually. This mat can stay plugged in 24/7 without a hitch until it stops working in the end but isn't the end where you want it to end? I have one that has lasted 5 years, the other I gave to the neighbor and now I have come back for another. The one I have still works but I like to have one of the hot spots outside of her room (she took over the office) that is a complete HQ so she can belly heat safely without worry of the heat lamp turning a regular rock into a dangerous heat rock that has nothing to gauge nor govern its temperature. I can't say enough good things about this mat. I like to keep one in stock, used and plugged in, but mostly as a reserve. That way, I still have one 24/7 and one other to compliment/partner/emergency back up. When one breaks there is another to immediately take its place, heat mats, bulbs, veggies and greens. I would add lamps but I can get those at the big box pet store or a hardware store for a work shop clamp lamp but only for an times such as the lamp broke, (eventually the very electricity it carries, fries it) bulb broke and now I have to get more of those. For an hour or two, hardware lamps work fine but they will burn out A LOT faster than a ceramic lamp, just fyi. Gentle heat but persistent and consistent allows for extended time on the mat without worry your baby girl, class pet or lab specimens will be burnt to death without realizing it. I wouldn't realize it. I live next to 3 restaurants, there is always some form of burnt flesh wafting about on the breeze and, no, not all of the smells are pleasant. This heat mat is what secured me as a Fluker customer. Sure, they're home town/state but the other companies are American too but the other companies brought raw and unbridled power to a device that needs, above all, a governor built into it. The heat mat is the most important of accessories and finesse and quality are all I am looking for. Read the warnings on any heat mat. If it says it is made for the outside of the enclosure then slap one on the side for your geckos and frogs but do not use them under a tank unless the tank is on a tank stand because it does not have the center part of the table right underneath where outside of glass heaters will go. Fluker's heat mat doesn't keep me up at night with the 'did I leave the oven on?' nagging type of feeling. Smoke alarms are excellent ways to be awoken in time if fire breaks out but by the time the alarm goes off Baby Girl is already out of time. In a world as crazy as this, it's one pretty crucial thing i don't have to worry over. Thank you very much Fluker Farms for making a safe product that will break before it over heats and burns Baby Girl to the ground. I am honestly astonished at how many myths in keeping are not only still prevalent but that industry heavyweights (not captains of industry so much as a division of some holding corporation) are still actively making dangerous products while perpetuating these myths to a shameful degree that only points towards them knowing and not caring instead of being an ignorant collective who has naively entrusted their operations to vile ne'er do wells who care more about the fiscal quarter than me and mine. Too many folks look at reptiles like they are gold fish, a dime a dozen and they die off super quick so you can just go and pick out a new one. Shameful. At 9 years old (I got her at 4 inches, tip to tip) she is big enough that the cats don't mess with her due to some odd sense of seniority, she was here first and I think they could detect a tone of unease in my voice. I can kick an animal's butt if they try to hurt her. How do you kick a corporation's butt? One employee at a time, I guess. I much rather prefer this to that latter. If you read this far, purchase this mat because obviously you do care about whatever you need to offer belly heat. Also, you should probably socialize more. To be honest, this thing is so long winded and rambling that I finished it just to get better at typing. Proper husbandry, proper care in applying husbandry techniques, proper health, a right proper reptile instead of right proper $#&@*^>. Thanks for reading, and seriously, you really should get out more. Take your charge for a walk in the park one sunny day and who knows, maybe comb your hair and some mouth wash too. The goal is to talk to people and a reptile is a great ice breaker which is funny because, while eliciting interest and queries, reptiles are, in fact, inherently terrible at breaking ice in general.
