juliekat9

hi

i was just wondering if heat lamps should be used for my iguana in the
summertime. i live in boston and its has been very hot and humid. also
i live on the third floor so it is exceptionally hot. any ideas?

thanks!
=)
julie, marc and lizzy

vancocon

You must rely on actual readings on good thermometers. The warm side
of the cage must be near 95F not over 100, and the cooler end must be
about 80-85F. If any light makes the habitat hotter than the limit,
it must be turned off. If the cooler end gets too high, it must be
cooled. I do that with plastic gallon water jugs, frozen for that
purpose. On a hot day I put one in the cool end, and the ig can choose
it's temperature all day long.

Hope this helps.

Roger

slugger

I've noticed on many posts that everyone is saying not to use basking
bulbs for heating. Why is this? What is the best type of heating to
go with other then undertank heating. I don't really want to go with
the undertank heating, I heard that they really don't heat the inside
of the tanks, they just heat whats in the tank.

What type of heat lamp should I use?

chris mcmartin

That's weird. They just say don't use them without rationale? Maybe their
concern is fire safety--a lot of people put a bulb in a socket that's not
rated for the wattage of the bulb they're using (i.e. you shouldn't place a
250W bulb in a 60W socket).

I used bulbs for heating--I had a 60W bulb in a reflector dome (rated for up
to 250W) on a 10-gallon tank for my garter snake and it worked fine. The
only concern would be a nighttime source of heating if the temperature drop
was going to be too much (if your house is too cold in the winter, for
example).

Currently I don't keep diurnal animals indoors, so for my terrestrial geckos
I use a heat cord.

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n jill marsh

On 21 Oct 2006 04:40:14 -0700, "slugger" <r.mann.66.m@gmail.com>

I don't why anyone would say this, and I don't recall a post on this
group that says it. They are perfectly reasonable options for many
set ups, assuming basic safety standards are met.

I don't use over tank bulbs for my snakes, because I've found they
don't work very well for my purposes. If I had snakes that required
really warm air, or lizards or other critters that needed to bask, I
can't imagine a better alternative, (I include over tank ceramic
heaters in this, which I prefer to the bulbs because they aren't a
light source as well).

That's not necessarily a bad thing, what animals are you keeping?


The type that's best for your animal (first) and your lifestyle
(second). If the animal is kept in a room that people use at all
hours, or in an area that has large swings in room temperature, then I
think that separating your heat and light sources is important, you
need to be able to light your animal even when it's very warm, and
warm your animal even when you need it to be dark.

My snakes don't need full spectrum lighting, are naturally burrowers,
and one of them is nocturnal, so lighting is really just for the
people. They are kept in bedrooms as well, so heating that emits
light isn't reasonable for the people either. I have an overhead full
spectrum light strip because I like that quality of light to see them,
but having copious amounts of warm substrate (with a heat gradient,
naturally) is what seems to work best for them, so they're best with
an under tank heat source. They spend quite a bit of time out and
about, but that seems to be during their recreational/active periods,
rather than during rest periods.

nj"sea monster imitations"m

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