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Hi everyone. I was wondering if the following is an acceptable way of heating a sulcata of approx 5 inch length?
I've have always heated from above using a thermostatically controlled ceramic heater or flood bulb and then provided uv via a tube but recently I've noticed that because my reptile room is getting warmer,it is reducing the basking temps to a slightly lower temp then I'd like. So my question is this- could I provide the temperature requirements by heating the room to 75-80F and then provide one of the zoomed reptitherm habitat heaters http://zoomed.com/db/products/EntryDetail.php?EntryID=357&DatabaseID=2&SearchID=5 for its basking spot? And if I did,would I need to dial back the temp slightly or would just plugging it in be ok as it has it's own cut out?
Many thanks
Dan
I've have always heated from above using a thermostatically controlled ceramic heater or flood bulb and then provided uv via a tube but recently I've noticed that because my reptile room is getting warmer,it is reducing the basking temps to a slightly lower temp then I'd like. So my question is this- could I provide the temperature requirements by heating the room to 75-80F and then provide one of the zoomed reptitherm habitat heaters http://zoomed.com/db/products/EntryDetail.php?EntryID=357&DatabaseID=2&SearchID=5 for its basking spot? And if I did,would I need to dial back the temp slightly or would just plugging it in be ok as it has it's own cut out?
Many thanks
Dan