drpayne1990
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My previous post goes into how I am a **** owner. Well long story short I didn't have a basking globe only a CHE. So at least they had some heat (<.<).
I installed a 45watt basking globe into both of my enclosures. One 3x2x2 for my older beardie Koopa, and the other a small 2x2x2 for Gilbert.
I know the biggest problem with a small enclosure is trying to get a good gradient. I am trying to achieve this to the best of my ability and wanted to ask what you guys think.
This is just after I installed the basking globe. He was not getting the right temps from that distance so I built a platform
Here is the platform and Gilbert basking for one of the fist times. I obviously chose to build a platform over a higher wattage globe because I did not want it to heat up the enclosure even more
Here are the placement of the globes I installed
This is gilbert and you can see where I have placed the probe. I will come back to that later
From the location of the probe the tempreture gets up to 42.5 (108.5) degrees. Once it hits this point it turns off and drops down to 41 ( 105.8 )
This is how I have set up the themostate and lighting. Black cable is UVB with built in timer. White cable with timer is the CHE set with the probe thermostat and only running at night(set to 20 (68) degrees. White cable without timer (now has timer), is for the basking light during the day set with the same probe thermostat
I have a temperature gun coming in the mail at the moment but trying to work out gradient with what I have which is just that one probe thermostat.
Underneath the platform the temperature are around 29-31( 84.2 - 87.8 ) and most of the other areas on the ground floor sit around 31-32 (87.8 - 89.6).
I know these are not perfect ideal temperature but is it good enough to help regulate body temperature?
Is the platform cutting out too much UV rays from the fluro?
Is there another way to set up the power? (the only other way I thought was to have a separate thermostat. The one connected to the cabinet is not hooked up to anything, maybe that?)
Is the probe location okay?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Paul
I installed a 45watt basking globe into both of my enclosures. One 3x2x2 for my older beardie Koopa, and the other a small 2x2x2 for Gilbert.
I know the biggest problem with a small enclosure is trying to get a good gradient. I am trying to achieve this to the best of my ability and wanted to ask what you guys think.
This is just after I installed the basking globe. He was not getting the right temps from that distance so I built a platform
Here is the platform and Gilbert basking for one of the fist times. I obviously chose to build a platform over a higher wattage globe because I did not want it to heat up the enclosure even more
Here are the placement of the globes I installed
This is gilbert and you can see where I have placed the probe. I will come back to that later
From the location of the probe the tempreture gets up to 42.5 (108.5) degrees. Once it hits this point it turns off and drops down to 41 ( 105.8 )
This is how I have set up the themostate and lighting. Black cable is UVB with built in timer. White cable with timer is the CHE set with the probe thermostat and only running at night(set to 20 (68) degrees. White cable without timer (now has timer), is for the basking light during the day set with the same probe thermostat
I have a temperature gun coming in the mail at the moment but trying to work out gradient with what I have which is just that one probe thermostat.
Underneath the platform the temperature are around 29-31( 84.2 - 87.8 ) and most of the other areas on the ground floor sit around 31-32 (87.8 - 89.6).
I know these are not perfect ideal temperature but is it good enough to help regulate body temperature?
Is the platform cutting out too much UV rays from the fluro?
Is there another way to set up the power? (the only other way I thought was to have a separate thermostat. The one connected to the cabinet is not hooked up to anything, maybe that?)
Is the probe location okay?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Paul
