I keep a couple bearded dragons and 75 is a good ambient cage temperature. What you do need is a hot spot of around 110 or more. If you are keeping the ambient temp in the cage around 75 that is perfectly fine. Check your basking site temps with a good temp gun and get an accurate reading directly under the heat lamp. This should read 110 or higher. I keep mine higher. A 150watt spot bulb should produce a number much higher than that, in fact it will probably be too hot. I would say a 45watt halogen flood will be more than enough. I would recommend using 2 lower wattage bulbs over 1 high watt bulbs also.



One way to increase this temp is to raise the basking site. This can easily be done with bricks, rocks, wood, etc. I use bricks or rocks b/c they hold heat great, but anything will work. They also hold heat after the light is turned off.



In addition BD sometimes slow down in the wintertime and consume less food. Also they eat fewer insects as they age and start to eat more vegetables so this is something you should consider when looking at their eating habits. You may have a lizaqrd that is reacting to temps and light and getting rdy to brumate.

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