12 month old male possible brumating??

[KarrieRee]

How do I increase hot and cold side temps?

Do I need to increase to 100w

Yes but make sure your getting a surface basking temp w/ a digital probe thermometer --- watch the middle of the tank after increasing the wattage move your probe to the center of the tank and get the air temp - I would place a digital probe on your cool side of the tank -

 

[Scotty97]

I have a digital probe just behind basking (warm side), and I also have a digital probe in cold side.

I only have IR gun to measure basking, but are you saying I need to place a probe on his basking log?

What temp should centre of tank be?

 

[Scotty97]

Warm side

Cold side

 

[KarrieRee]

I have a digital probe just behind basking (warm side), and I also have a digital probe in cold side.

I only have IR gun to measure basking, but are you saying I need to place a probe on his basking log?

What temp should centre of tank be?

Take the probe place where he sits for basking -- 10 min or so get the temp--- middle of the tank 90's -- I have a 120 gallon tank and 2 basking areas set up as my UVB is front center of the tank - there is a 75 watt above that rock behind the UVB as its in the tank - temps run in the 90's there --

 

[Scotty97]

Ok, I’ll swap bulb tomorrow as soon as I get home from work, gives me a few hours to monitor it then before the lights go off?

Any particular 100w you would use?

Also is it worth me permanently adding a digital thermometer to centre of Viv, something like this, as a reference

 

[KarrieRee]

Ok, I’ll swap bulb tomorrow as soon as I get home from work, gives me a few hours to monitor it then before the lights go off?

Any particular 100w you would use?

Also is it worth me permanently adding a digital thermometer to centre of Viv, something like this, as a reference

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Its up to you -- I use one digital probe to monitor temps - I just move the probe -- I also have a IR gun that I spot check different areas on the hot side - I use a piece of decor that offers a heat gradient for them to sit on the hot side --- as far as basking bulbs at this time I am using Flukers --- I have used Zoo Med Repti basking - Exo Terra Intense bulbs - I have found the Flukers are the most reasonable and last longer - any solid bright white basking bulb will work tho -- also Arcadia Halogen bulbs as well - havent used those tho --

 

[Scotty97]

Ok thanks for all you info.

Any photos of your set up? Handy to see how other people do it?

 

[KarrieRee]

Blazes tank

 

[Scotty97]

Looks awesome,

I think I may need to get something stand alone for basking, he always lay on his log, but we have to lean it on something, the slate bridge was supposed to be for basking, but for some reason, he doesn’t tend to lie on it, even when it was under the basking light.

 

[KarrieRee]

Looks awesome,

I think I may need to get something stand alone for basking, he always lay on his log, but we have to lean it on something, the slate bridge was supposed to be for basking, but for some reason, he doesn’t tend to lie on it, even when it was under the basking light.

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the slate bridge may get too hot--- slate tends to heat more -- the hammock needs the digital probe thermometer on it where he sits to basks-

 

[Scotty97]

The hammock is actually behind the basking area.

The log you can see on bottom of photo is directly under the basking area.

He tends to climb up to top of hammock and hangs there, sleeps over night sometimes

 

[KarrieRee]

The hammock is actually behind the basking area.

The log you can see on bottom of photo is directly under the basking area.

He tends to climb up to top of hammock and hangs there, sleeps over night sometimes

What is the surface basking temp on the log?

 

[Scotty97]

Using the heat gun it’s hard to measure, different sections of the bark, read different temps between 37.5 to 40

I’ll check it with a probe tomorrow.

Is it ok for the probe to be in direct light on the surface/bark of the log

 

[KarrieRee]

Using the heat gun it’s hard to measure, different sections of the bark, read different temps between 37.5 to 40

I’ll check it with a probe tomorrow.

Is it ok for the probe to be in direct light on the surface/bark of the log

Yes thats going to give an actual surface temp

 

[Scotty97]

We’ll just changed bulb to 100w and checked basking temp but it’s up to 44 degrees c.
Do I bring temp down using thermostat?

Can’t really lower basking spot. It’s about 8” from bilb