wondering about night time heating

[Martinoheat]

i am building a new viv and i was wondering would i be better off going with the heat matt under the viv or with the night glo in opposit end as the heat lamp. another thing is there any difference in a night glo bulb and a black light or is it just a money scame like the most of the lights..{not including uv lights off coarse. thanks

 

[ziggy23]

neither. Unless your house gets below 65F at night, you don't need anything. If it does, use a ceramic heat emitter.

They can't sense heat from below, and those things along with heat rocks are known to overheat, and it could seriously burn your lizard. The black lights are no good because they need complete darkness to sleep.

 

[Martinoheat]

well with my old dragon i had i used a heat rock but i had it bariied under other rocks so he coald not actually touch it but it still krpt the temp up in his tank. also as for the repti night light i use one on one of my dragons now just opn the top of his tank for heat in the night but he sleep fine with it but if ya say so i guess i dont need anything. so like 20 room tempurature is fine cool man.