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?

 

[PalestTortie]

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

It's an MFC one. It just would be extremly difficult to move the two other vivs, my back problems were a... well a problem stacking these up. I won't move them again unless I'll be moving, which is nowhere near.

And I don't really understand what you wrote about the heaters. I'm not really understanding around that matter.

And any idea why my tort struggles to get food? Should I just leave out larger pieces for it to trim these itself?

 

[PalestTortie]

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

Delay and money. It got its substrate today though.

He's spending his time sniffing and trying to eat it. He's already eaten two small pieces of orchid bark..... I hope that won't cause issues?

 

[PalestTortie]

Legz for dayz

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Delay and money. It got its substrate today though.

He's spending his time sniffing and trying to eat it. He's already eaten two small pieces of orchid bark..... I hope that won't cause issues?

No don’t worry, any chip small enough to swallow will come out the other end eventually🥲he’s likely just curious and will stop once he figures it out😊

Our red foot still eats the odd piece and it always comes out lol

 

[PalestTortie]

No don’t worry, any chip small enough to swallow will come out the other end eventually🥲he’s likely just curious and will stop once he figures it out😊

Our red foot still eats the odd piece and it always comes out lol

Lol that's wonderfully funny news ever. I guess my guy has a thing for bark 😂

 

[Alex and the Redfoot]

It's an MFC one. It just would be extremly difficult to move the two other vivs, my back problems were a... well a problem stacking these up. I won't move them again unless I'll be moving, which is nowhere near.

And I don't really understand what you wrote about the heaters. I'm not really understanding around that matter.

And any idea why my tort struggles to get food? Should I just leave out larger pieces for it to trim these itself?

MFC is not superhard material. But I certainly understand why you don't want to move other vivariums. When I had to screw anything in hard to reach places I did a hole first with a nail and one bash of a hammer - then screw usually goes easy. @Littleredfootbigredheart when you set up Squirt's viv did you drill any holes?

As of heating, perhaps I made some confusion. Could you ask again what's the problem now?

I don't know why tortoise misses the food - looks like the dish border gets in the way. Giving whole leaves may help and you can feed it off the slate or larger dish (so it can fully get in the dish).

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

@Littleredfootbigredheart when you set up Squirt's viv did you drill any holes?

We had to lay down in there and drill the metal clips into place that hold the uv and leds, and we had to drill the ceramic bulb fittings into place, it was an awkward job ngl🥲