Dawnrider
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I must concede that this is a issue I never though I would encounter. I have a beardy and uromastyx (and considering getting Mali the Uromastyx a boyfriend) living in a 10x10 room along with myself. The temps during the day are infernal for me and my pug dog Heather, but perfect for my little reptilian babies. To be honest I have adapted to the 86F temps in my room during the day. The room tempature is also that of the cool end of the tank for both lizards (just a smidge above perfection of 84F), who both seem perfectly happy and extremely active. I was shaking my head in disbelief the other day as it snowed outside my window and I was sitting inside sweating. I'm the only guy wearing shorts in the middle of winter.
Anyway, the problem is not me (I do quite well with the dry warm room know, I like to think I am getting more reptilian myself :lol:
) the problem has to do with night time temps. I keep the door shut to my room for safety purposes, in case of unlikely lizard escape. When the door is shut the temps stay about 86 all day, and drop to 80 or 82 with the door open and to 78 at night with the door open. I even have a themometer (digital) measuring my rooms temp just out of curosity, thats how I got these readings. My room is insulated very well apperently. When night falls and the timers say "lights out" and the black lights come on the heat in the room is slow to reduce (dropping about 0.1th of a degree every five or so minutes). It will eventually settle around 80F (generally 2 hours after lights off or so), I leave my ceiling fan on constantly to help keep good air flow. The blacklights are low wattage, and are primarily there so I can "check up" on them, not for heating and don't really put off any heat anyway. My question is, are these temperatures uncomfortable for my lizards. They sleep soundly all through the night and wake up bright and cheery, so I'm not really concerned, just wondered if that would effect there metabolism at all.
Heck, maybe they enjoy it being warmer at night. Has anyone eveer had a similar situation before? One things for sure last thing I need is a CHE
Anyway, the problem is not me (I do quite well with the dry warm room know, I like to think I am getting more reptilian myself :lol:
) the problem has to do with night time temps. I keep the door shut to my room for safety purposes, in case of unlikely lizard escape. When the door is shut the temps stay about 86 all day, and drop to 80 or 82 with the door open and to 78 at night with the door open. I even have a themometer (digital) measuring my rooms temp just out of curosity, thats how I got these readings. My room is insulated very well apperently. When night falls and the timers say "lights out" and the black lights come on the heat in the room is slow to reduce (dropping about 0.1th of a degree every five or so minutes). It will eventually settle around 80F (generally 2 hours after lights off or so), I leave my ceiling fan on constantly to help keep good air flow. The blacklights are low wattage, and are primarily there so I can "check up" on them, not for heating and don't really put off any heat anyway. My question is, are these temperatures uncomfortable for my lizards. They sleep soundly all through the night and wake up bright and cheery, so I'm not really concerned, just wondered if that would effect there metabolism at all. Heck, maybe they enjoy it being warmer at night. Has anyone eveer had a similar situation before? One things for sure last thing I need is a CHE
