Sand Boa Heating Safety Tips

Video Transcript

"Okay we were talking about how to properly put on your heat pad. Again, just to go over it really quick. We're talking about a heat pad and this goes on the outside bottom of the aquarium for the sand boa. And in order for this to work properly and be safe it comes with these little rubber feet okay, these feet need to be placed on the aquarium. There's four of them. Each ones' going to go on different sides of the aquarium, one in each corner. Okay. They're self adhesive, you just pull a little sticky tab off the back and stick it on. Well, why am I being such a stickler about this? Leave you along, right? No. What these do is they raise the aquarium off of whatever surface it's sitting on. Without these the heat will get trapped under your aquarium and will crack the bottom of your aquarium. If not just simple cause your heat pad to overheat and maybe cause some sort of fire. Another no on safety for the heat pads, because safety is always a concern when we're talking about heating devices, once this is on your aquarium, it's on. If you take it off it's garbage. Removing these off of aquariums because they are self adhesive, damages the heating elements inside. Once these heating elements are damaged it becomes a fire hazard. And a heat pad can potentially burn your house down. So please be very, very careful when you're using any heat pad or heat lamp fixture. We are talking about items that generate lots of heat. We don't want to have any accidents."