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at Sat Jan 29 10:18:58 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
oh my, this is going to hurt, Throw away the CHD, or whatever it is, Throw it far, and throw it away, did I say far.
The key to success in any friggin reptile is temperature RANGE, not one temp. Which means your thermostat thing is not required either. I do use many thermostats, but they are used to KILL. that is, if the temps get to high, they cut off the heating elements. Which means no need for pulse or proportional.
With varanids its far more important. They do use a wide range of temps, THEY seem to REQUIRE a wide range of temps. Which is why you throw away that ceramic deal.
Depending on the base temp of your room. If your in it and your not nuts, normal room temps are PERFECT, you know, 68 to 80F. I know, most think 80F is nuts, but thats what it is here.
Then heat the HOT SPOT, up to 150F plus or minus 25F. Surface temps. The hot spot needs to be the SV(snout/vent) length. So at least 18 inches wide for a Sav. Doing that will heat up the rest of the cage. Unless your cage is giant, If its giant, then do two hot spots and all is good. If its really giant or your room is frozen, then add more hot spots. This approach works. Other approaches are like feeding and infant sika pine filled baby food. While its ok, it only takes away from feeding MOMMAS MILK, which is best. So other types of heating is LESS THEN, not better then. You add, subtracting instead of adding.
Monitors require extreme heat, and cool. Like uros, no, more then uros. hahahahahahahahaha
And yes, there are all manner of lite to choose from. The very best are, 45w/50w floods from GE. They do not have the hot center of Phillips(homedepot/lows) A bank of two of these is much much better then one 250 watt stupid thing. If you have a big cage a florescent fixture for your viewing pleasure is Ok, with that, one plant bulb and one blue bulb emitts nice viewing lite. You can turn it off when your not watching.
Of course there is more. Time to sex monitors and drink, hmmmm one leads to the other, I have not figured out which is the horse and which is the cart. Awwwww who cares,
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RE: OT Question on equipment - FR, Sat Jan 29 10:18:58 2011