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Having trouble getting temps high enough?
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[QUOTE="RawrtheBeardedDragon, post: 2023888, member: 117952"] Hi all, brand new beardie owner here after wife and 2 year old went to the pet store for a Beta fish…. And came home with a Dragon 😂 A few questions on temperatures, I feel like I’m really struggling to get it warm enough. I have both a 100w basking bulb, and after feeling it was too cool and especially worried about night, added a 100w ceramic heater to the other in the duplex ballast. Replaced the little uvb light was originally there with a prot5 14%. Even with all that, the center “average” of the cage only gets to 83 degrees on the control (was afraid of over cooking him/her) with the ceramic added) digital read. 77 on the cool side and 88 on warm side air temp. And I feel like this much heating for a 40 gallon take should be more than enough. Just got an IR gun and now I’m really confused, shooting at floor the cool side is 77 and but warm side says (which is what I was trying for) 100, and then his elevated rock right under the basking light is 107. He only ever is on the warm side, never goes to the cool side. At night I try to keep the middle temp at 75 but the ceramic heater somehow doesn’t keep up and it’s been 72 in the morning (house is 70) and little dude is again on the warm side of his cage. Little guidance on if this is good and which numbers, the digital probes or the ir gun, to believe would be helpful. I ignore the stick on ones that came with the starter tank. Last question is flooring, looks like tile is the prefered as they can’t have sand yet, but I can’t find tile that fits here. Ended up with a laminate wood flooring that’s waterproof and scratch resistant thinking that would be easiest to clean? Is that alright? [/QUOTE]
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