Shane I offer my lizards options, they can bask at 130f if they need to, its available.

My minimum is 75f at present, this is at night when all lights ar off, in the day my lowest temps may be 78f-82f with gradiant options up to 130f, they do not use it often but when they need it they use it.

In nature sometime they have lower temps low 50s and much higher temps 170f on some basking surfaces, 130-140f is a common high temp on a sunny day, temperatures of 85-90f in the shades are unavoidable to them most of the year, yet we offer them temps in the 70s, why???

The terrible thing about such low temps is the proliferation of intestinal parasites, these parasites are very important to our lizards, they regulate the imiun system, help fight bacterial infections, help in triggering different hormones witch in turns perform other functions.

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