ComicBookMama
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I've been keeping an eye on Figment's temps lately, because I realized how hot the room he's in gets as a result of his bulbs. The problem is the door, which we usually keep closed to keep the cat out - when the door is closed, the ambient temps in the room and in the tank go up quite a bit.
As I write this, I've got the door open and a fan blowing in from our air conditioned bedroom and the temps are 88.2 by my probe/ 85.4 by my temp gun (cool side) and 105.1F by probe/ 97.2 by temp gun (basking area). Frankly, I'm not sure which to believe - the probe or the gun, which is a PE1 from Tempgun.com... the probe is a ZooMed digital probe.
I've been relying on the probe to track the daily fluctuations, as I cannot easily get my arm into the tank to take the readings with the temp gun... a small screen door in the top of the cage and a large arm don't cooperate well. :roll:
The basking area of the tank ranges from around 105F - 109F, under a 100w bulb. Figment prefers to bask on the tile floor of the tank, so that's where I'm taking the readings. I've got a perfectly good branch in there for him to bask on, but he prefers the floor or his hammock (which is closer to his UV strip but doesn't give me good readings tempwise).
The cool side of the tank ranges from 88F - 95F under a 60w plant incandescent bulb. I've been thinking about shifting to an LED bulb for the summer, since when the door to the room is closed, the cool side does get much warmer than I think it ought to be (90s). I tried turning off the light, and it evened out around 85-88F.
My question is, are my temps okay for my dragon, even if they fluctuate that way? I know that in nature, the temps ebb and flow throughout the day - but I just want to make sure that things aren't TOO hot for him.
As I write this, I've got the door open and a fan blowing in from our air conditioned bedroom and the temps are 88.2 by my probe/ 85.4 by my temp gun (cool side) and 105.1F by probe/ 97.2 by temp gun (basking area). Frankly, I'm not sure which to believe - the probe or the gun, which is a PE1 from Tempgun.com... the probe is a ZooMed digital probe.
I've been relying on the probe to track the daily fluctuations, as I cannot easily get my arm into the tank to take the readings with the temp gun... a small screen door in the top of the cage and a large arm don't cooperate well. :roll:
The basking area of the tank ranges from around 105F - 109F, under a 100w bulb. Figment prefers to bask on the tile floor of the tank, so that's where I'm taking the readings. I've got a perfectly good branch in there for him to bask on, but he prefers the floor or his hammock (which is closer to his UV strip but doesn't give me good readings tempwise).
The cool side of the tank ranges from 88F - 95F under a 60w plant incandescent bulb. I've been thinking about shifting to an LED bulb for the summer, since when the door to the room is closed, the cool side does get much warmer than I think it ought to be (90s). I tried turning off the light, and it evened out around 85-88F.
My question is, are my temps okay for my dragon, even if they fluctuate that way? I know that in nature, the temps ebb and flow throughout the day - but I just want to make sure that things aren't TOO hot for him.