curlysister wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 8:15 pm
Don't get the sticky ones. Spend the money on a good one that you attach yourself with Gorilla tape (or similar). They give off more heat, you can move them if you need to, and you can insulate over top of them!
Thanks. Could you give me an example of a brand that fits that description -- the good ones that you attach yourself?
One fix I've considered for the Zoo Med heaters is to glue a steel bar along each of the four edges, or somehow make a rigid steel frame. Because I feel like the main flaw is not so much that they don't stick, but rather that they have no rigidity. As a portion of the edge loses its stickiness (or gives way to some small force being applied, e.g. the weight of the power cord), the flexibility of the plastic allows it to warp and bend, so you end up with about half the heater attached, half of it hanging loose. If the edges were rigid, I think the whole thing would probably stay attached. I could probably do this fix if I had a week off to live in the hardware store, but obviously I haven't had that opportunity.
I was not aware that Gorilla tape is a thing. If it is strong enough to attach a heater that has no stickiness of its own, then I wonder what that means about these higher-quality heaters you are suggesting. Either their edges must be rigid as i described above, or, maybe Gorilla tape is just a whole lot stickier than those Zoo Med heaters. In that case, maybe Gorilla tape is sufficient to keep my Zoo Meds attached?