Distance between tort and uvb lamp?

[PalestTortie]

Incandescent flood lamp for the basking zone (like Arcadia Solar Basking Floodlight), without a thermostat. And a ceramic heat emitter on on/off thermostat for ambient heat (if your dimming thermostat works with ceramic heat emitters - great).

Does the solar thing work without a stat without overheating...? That doesn't seem right..

Ambient heat is fine in my room thanks to my lizards.

 

[PalestTortie]

My floodlight lamp only heats where there is light (I put the tort there to warm up), and it comes off (when temp is reached) and on (when it heats again to set temp). It doesn't seem ideal to me personally.

 

[PalestTortie]

Maybe you can use something like this? https://www.hardwareandtools.com/hi...brass-plated-1-1-4-inch-2-pack-kdaa-7644.html

I have two other heavy vivs stacked on, and for this I'd still need to take them off and drill holes.

 

[PalestTortie]

Hm, and these two just arrived. Perfect for feeding, but for water they're too shallow.

 

[PalestTortie]

Yeah most likely it didnt eat much since I got it. Just look at how it fails to eat anything at all. After it keeps failining it gives up and walks away. I don't now wonder why it's not super active.

 

[Alex and the Redfoot]

Does the solar thing work without a stat without overheating...? That doesn't seem right..

Ambient heat is fine in my room thanks to my lizards.

You have some options: get a lower wattage lamp, use a rheostat to lower wattage a bit (otherwise, lamp will give light in orange/reds spectrum) and adjust lamp height.

"Solar thing" is an incandescent reflector bulb. Nothing special. Any heat source - DHP, Spot lamps will heat up viv. Even directional heat sources raise temperature because they heat up substrate.

If you keep your reptile room at "tropical minimum" of 80F, any heater in viv can be a problem.

 

[Alex and the Redfoot]

My floodlight lamp only heats where there is light (I put the tort there to warm up), and it comes off (when temp is reached) and on (when it heats again to set temp). It doesn't seem ideal to me personally.

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That's why basking lamps should run without a thermostat. The only case is emergency shutdown, to prevent overheating - I'm not sure if there are cheaper options than using on/off thermostat with adjustable hysteresis (temperature delta).

You have to achieve balance between ambient heat produced by the lamp and heat dissipation from viv.

 

[Alex and the Redfoot]

I have two other heavy vivs stacked on, and for this I'd still need to take them off and drill holes.

Is it a hard vivarium material? Often you can just make a "mark hole" and then screw a hook with your bare hands.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Is there a reason tort doesn’t appear to have substrate?