I have a kind of weird question but hoping someone here can answer it. I am wondering about when flipping a tank up on its side which is commonly done for aboreal species to give them more height. If I put the light on the side of the tank that will now be the top, will the heat from the light still go threw the glass well or not?. I am just wondering because if I do decide to use some tanks standing up on there side for tokays will the light still work good for heating or will the glass affect it?. Hope that makes sense lol

Counld't answer that. Doesn't Harold do a lot of upright tanks....he might know.

Jason, You mean standing the tank on it's END, correct? I'm not sure I'd trust lamp heat that close to the glass. I'm thinkin' the heat would crack it. What will you be using for a door on the new front? Screen? Might better find a way to hook it up to point through the front of it at the top. Just a thought.

i think some heat might go through the glass but nit sure how much

Jason, You mean standing the tank on it's END, correct? I'm not sure I'd trust lamp heat that close to the glass. I'm thinkin' the heat would crack it. What will you be using for a door on the new front? Screen? Might better find a way to hook it up to point through the front of it at the top. Just a thought.Yea standing on its end, better way to put it lol. I am thinking if I can do something so the light isnt directly on the glass that would be better..

I'm thinking...and I'm speaking here with never doing soemthing like this myself...that the heat even right up close to the glass is going to be very limited to the heat you get inside the aquarium....maybe I'm wrong here...and if you have to have farther away even less will get through....I would set it up and try it with nothing in it first....and Don't burn anything down in the process either :lol:

Yea standing on its end, better way to put it lol. I am thinking if I can do something so the light isnt directly on the glass that would be better..


Also keep in mind, the heat going through the glass may be magnified. Making the temps inside higher than maybe they should be. Just something to keep an eye on.

Also keep in mind, the heat going through the glass may be magnified. Making the temps inside higher than maybe they should be. Just something to keep an eye on.

I was wondering if that may happen as well.

Also keep in mind, the heat going through the glass may be magnified. Making the temps inside higher than maybe they should be. Just something to keep an eye on.Yea good point, was just considering it but will have to look into it more and find some people that use tanks standing on end and what they do..

I will preface this by saying that I know nothing about tokays but unless they need the light for basking? I would recommend using either a radiant heat panel inside the cage or even an UTH on the back or top of the cage instead of a heat lamp. But again I don't know what type of heat requirement they need but I heat lamps in general don't work efficiently through glass.

Well tokays are nocturnal and dont require UVB but being aboreal I just always used overhead heating.

I would say no the heat will not radiate thru enough for what you want. But if you have already invested in getting these tanks and really want to use them standing on end you could buy a diamond tipped hole drill bit for about $40 on ebay. You cant buy them at hardware stores. But you could drill holes in them to sit your light on. The side panes are not tempered. The bottom is tempered and can not be drilled.

It is not super easy to do but very possible. People do it all the time to make sumps for large aquariums. If interested I can dig and post up a link to a video showing how to do it.

OR you could take a razor blade and cut away the seal and take out the end panel. NOT EASY, just ask Bryce (beclende), the piece will most likely break. But you can have a glass shop cut you a piece with a good sized hole in it for CHEAP. And then silicone back in to tank. If interested PM bryce about it.
You could even have 2 hole cut so you can place a small fan over the other hole for air movement.

Sitting your light on glass is no problem. As long as the hot glass doesnt have cold water thrown on it.

ive seen others do this and allways same result as far as the light goes-the tank cracks