help keep warmth at night

[kayleighidkk]

so recently, my baby has decided to sleep in his water bowl . i moved him , but he seemed so cold i took him out and wrapped him in a blanket with me to get warmth. besides a night light, is there anything else i can do to keep him warmer at night ?

 

[Rankins]

Don't use a night light. They need to rest and the light interupts that. Use a ceramic heat emitter at night...or I use heat tape under my cool end of the enclosure. Its hooked to a thermostat so I don't have to worry about thermal burns. But if your house isn't getting lower than 65°F at night you really don't need to heat the enclosure. The only exception is I prefer to keep babies warmer than that.

 

[kingofnobbys]

so recently, my baby has decided to sleep in his water bowl . i moved him , but he seemed so cold i took him out and wrapped him in a blanket with me to get warmth. besides a night light, is there anything else i can do to keep him warmer at night ?

First order of business - take away the water bowl, very few beardies will recognize standing water in a bowl as a source of water , more inclined to use it as a toilet or to sit in it to cool off.

You can certainly provide overnight tank heating for your hatchling, I use 7W film type heatpads which I sandwich between two layers of ceramic tile and I regulate the temperature of the heatpad and the ceramic insulation via a simple digital thermostat ( with the probe attached to the hottest area of the ceramic tiles which I keep at about 36-37degrees Celsius 24/7) and the hatchling's hide goes ontop the warmed tiles.
All my lizards love their warmed tiles , especially at night .

If it gets particularly chilly inside your house overnight , a CHE mounted inside the tank and regulated via a digital thermostat who's probe is positioned near the usual bed or their hide, a CHE will not emit light, it gets hot and radiates heat , and some of the heat is taken up by the air which circulates inside the tank.

 

[joef]

If your beardie is in a glass tank, then you could stick a heat pad to the bottom of its tank. You can get them from your local pet store and they have sticky on them so you cant stick it to the bottom of the tank. Once you stick the heat pad on, you can get it off, but it will NOT stick back to things after that.

 

[kayleighidkk]

okay , thank you all