What heating source do you use?!

[Eric1969]

Red heat lamp for me. Provides excellent belly heat. I measure the temps on the floor of the tank, and the warm side is around 94.

If the heat is coming from the top, and the bottom temp is 94, wouldnt that be too warm for the lizard back, I use both, and the temp on the sticker on the side of the tank only reads around 78, and that is how its always been. I just made the ground a bit warmer, and he has been acting funny the past 6 days.

 

[Eric1969]

I have an UTH and a 75 watt basking lamp on the warm side, and the thermometer sticker has only read between 75-78 degrees, which is how it has always been. I made the floor warmer and now he has been acting funny, can it be too warm for him now?

 

[monkeytechahoo]

UTH for my tank but I'm thinking of switchin to heat tape. I'm just worried about my getting the tape wrong. *lol* Electronics and I don't work well at times.

 

[Dog Shrink]

I have an UTH and a 75 watt basking lamp on the warm side, and the thermometer sticker has only read between 75-78 degrees, which is how it has always been. I made the floor warmer and now he has been acting funny, can it be too warm for him now?

If your thermometer is stuck to the wall and not directly on the floor it could be too hot on the floor. You need to have a probe directly on the floor over the UTH for an accurate floor reading. Tape thermometers really aren't that accurate. You can get digital probe thermometers at wal mart and lowes for under $10.00

 

[ncbeast]

OK, I am new at this and bought a year old male off of craigslist and have the 10 gal set up just like the previous owner. The leo looks very healthy, about 7" long and a very fat tail. Have a UTH on the far right side and a regular 75 watt soft white bulb on that side that runs for 12 hours. Stick on dial thermometer half way up the back wall on that side read about 92 during the day and I about 70 at night. Bought a proub thermometer and have it on the floor right over the UTH and under the wet box and during the day it stays around 87 and then 77 at night on the floor. There is a red cfl 13 watt that is on all the time as will (just so it does not have to have a timer or have to manually turn it on when the day light bulb turns off, no heat from it though). Oh yeah the substraight we are using is just think brown paper cut to fit the bottom. Previous owner was using paper towels but we wanted something that looked more like his natural envirnment so we found a big rool of this paper in the paint department at Wal-Mart. We cut out additional squares for the poop corner and just replace that when needed. Afraid if we put tile down the heat would be even less so we are sticking with the paper in this tank.

The moment the day light bulb turns off (red light still on) he comes out from his cool hide and goes to the warm hide, and stays on that side most of the night climbing around a little and laying on his belly and in the moist hide, all on the warm side. As soon as the day light bulbs come on in the morning he goes to the cool hide and stays there all day sleeping.

I am thinking this is pretty normal but have read that I may need to just get rid of the 75 watt day light bulb because it could hurt his eyes and cause stress but am afraid it will not be warm enough without it. I do not want to do too much to this tank because my son is saving money to set up a 55 gal. divided and should be doing that next month or 2and we will buy a good Cobra UTH.

We have only had him a week and he is not very active at night but we are trying to keep everything the same as the previous owner hoping not to stress him too much with the change.

Thanks in advance for any advise.

Greg & AJ

 

[Dakota_Ghost]

I use an UTH and a red heat bulb for my tank. It's very very cold in my house at this time of year! Sometimes I turn the lamp off at night to allow for a temperature drop.

 

[Dog Shrink]

I use a 100 watt red heat-lamp. I've got a probe-thermometer sitting above Khalil's warm-den to measure the temperature on the ground, although it hovers around 85 for now, it'll get warmer as summer reemerges.

85 on the hot side is way too low for a leo. He needs a minimum belly heat of 93-95 imo.

 

[Dog Shrink]

OK, I am new at this and bought a year old male off of craigslist and have the 10 gal set up just like the previous owner. The leo looks very healthy, about 7" long and a very fat tail. Have a UTH on the far right side and a regular 75 watt soft white bulb on that side that runs for 12 hours. Stick on dial thermometer half way up the back wall on that side read about 92 during the day and I about 70 at night. Bought a proub thermometer and have it on the floor right over the UTH and under the wet box and during the day it stays around 87 and then 77 at night on the floor. There is a red cfl 13 watt that is on all the time as will (just so it does not have to have a timer or have to manually turn it on when the day light bulb turns off, no heat from it though). Oh yeah the substraight we are using is just think brown paper cut to fit the bottom. Previous owner was using paper towels but we wanted something that looked more like his natural envirnment so we found a big rool of this paper in the paint department at Wal-Mart. We cut out additional squares for the poop corner and just replace that when needed. Afraid if we put tile down the heat would be even less so we are sticking with the paper in this tank.

The moment the day light bulb turns off (red light still on) he comes out from his cool hide and goes to the warm hide, and stays on that side most of the night climbing around a little and laying on his belly and in the moist hide, all on the warm side. As soon as the day light bulbs come on in the morning he goes to the cool hide and stays there all day sleeping.

I am thinking this is pretty normal but have read that I may need to just get rid of the 75 watt day light bulb because it could hurt his eyes and cause stress but am afraid it will not be warm enough without it. I do not want to do too much to this tank because my son is saving money to set up a 55 gal. divided and should be doing that next month or 2and we will buy a good Cobra UTH.

We have only had him a week and he is not very active at night but we are trying to keep everything the same as the previous owner hoping not to stress him too much with the change.

Thanks in advance for any advise.

Greg & AJ

A 75 watt incandescent bulb is much too bright for a leos sensitive eyes. I would suggest nothing more than a 15-25 watt. The fact that he hides fromthe "day bulb" reinforces this theory. Also 87 is not hot enough. 93-95 minimum needed for proper digestion and metabolism.

 

[ncbeast]

A 75 watt incandescent bulb is much too bright for a leos sensitive eyes. I would suggest nothing more than a 15-25 watt. The fact that he hides fromthe "day bulb" reinforces this theory. Also 87 is not hot enough. 93-95 minimum needed for proper digestion and metabolism.

Thanks Shrink, so i need to get rid of the 75 watt day bulb. I have the digital probe under the moist box now right over the UTH but without the 75 watt bulb the floor only gets to about 85-87? My house this time a year is 65 at night and 68-70 during the day. This is a 10 gal and not sure the brand of UTH. Have the tank on a folded towel on my son's dresser so no air movement under the tank and UTH. Would it help for the mat to get warmer if I put some wood under the tank to raise it up? I have learned I need to do that anyway for safty. Or maybe a piece of tile would help to hold some of the heat? Just need a tempary fix for this tank, will be upgrading the tank soon and will be getting a better UTH. Oh yeah, how about the red cfl that we are using at night, is that ok? Thanks for all of the help, learning more everyday.

 

[Dog Shrink]

Thanks Shrink, so i need to get rid of the 75 watt day bulb. I have the digital probe under the moist box now right over the UTH but without the 75 watt bulb the floor only gets to about 85-87? My house this time a year is 65 at night and 68-70 during the day. This is a 10 gal and not sure the brand of UTH. Have the tank on a folded towel on my son's dresser so no air movement under the tank and UTH. Would it help for the mat to get warmer if I put some wood under the tank to raise it up? I have learned I need to do that anyway for safty. Or maybe a piece of tile would help to hold some of the heat? Just need a tempary fix for this tank, will be upgrading the tank soon and will be getting a better UTH. Oh yeah, how about the red cfl that we are using at night, is that ok? Thanks for all of the help, learning more everyday.

I'd love to talk more to you about this but I don't want to hijack this persons thread so if you could start a new thread with everything you posted in your last post I'd be happy to go into mroe detail with you about it.

 

[ncbeast]

Understand, posted in "Housing" under "NEWB with conerns - Help Dog Shrink!"

 

[Blacksupra94]

UTH and ceramic heat emitter sometimes

 

[neubauer geckos]

I use Heat Cable in my vision rack and homeade melamine rack.I also use Zoo Med UTH when I'm housing geckos in tanks for display.

 

[GeffGecko]

Heat cable for me

Testing cable

 

[doublet74]

I use a UTH on the hot side montitored by a thermostat. And on the cool side I use a 15 watt blue UVB bulb during the day and a 15 watt red bulb at night monitored by a digital timer. During the winter being that there is minimal heat in my basement I plan to switch both bulbs to 50 watts each to generate heat to maintain my temps on the cool side.

 

[nessa]

One of my set ups just has a uth and the other has a red heat light and a small uth.

 

[grboxa]

uth to a thermostat at 90-94 floor. with a 75 blue light on at all times.

 

[FatalityBoyZahy]

I use a 60w Ceramic Heat Emitter with Slate.

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[stager]

UTH have ultratherm 11 x 11 on my 20 gal breeder and a zoo med on my 10 gals

 

[jakewevers]

UTH and Heat lamp

i use a heat lamp during the day to simulate sun light/heat and a UTH and low wattage black bulb for night to keep it warm and dark.