Multi-hour window set up

[adasimone]

My beardie Thorson is about a year old. We adopted her from our landlord. He told us she loved looking out windows and boy is this true. I bought a window perch for my cat way back and she never used it, but Thorson is obsessed. When it's daylight out, she'll bolt to the window no matter where she was sitting. After dark or if the curtain is closed, she's pretty content to sit and cuddle and watch TV.

The window gets beautiful sunlight in the morning, so on days I'm working from home I'll open it up and let her sit there. I clamp her ceramic heater there and carefully monitor (every 20 minutes or so) the temperatures on the perch with a infarred thermometer.. I've managed to get it down to a pretty good science where near the heater is about 110 and the other side of the perch away is about 85-90.

The problem is on cloudy days or by late morning when the sun is gone I don't want her out without her UV for a long period of time. I put her back in her viv and she tends to act rather grumpy when I put her back.

I was thinking of hanging up a smaller UV light near the window (about 8 inches above the perch) so that Thorson could hang out there for much longer while still getting UV. I don't want to do harm though. Basically my question is would putting up a UV lamp in the window plus her ceramic heater be sufficient to allow her several hours of supervised window time on days I work from home?

Other notes: This is one to two days a week. Always supervised. The perch has a towel sitting on it. My cat can't figure out what Thorson is so pretends that Thorson doesn't exist and ignores her.

 

[CooperDragon]

My guy loves looking out the window too. I think it's a pretty common interest with them. They do pretty well at room temperatures for extended periods so I don't worry too much about heat or UVB while he's in the window. When he's done he climbs down. I use mercury vapor lights around the house as portable basking sites. He will return to those when he wants to bask/warm back up. It's not necessary on a constant basis though.