A lot of people still use those plastic fish tanks thermo strip things (bad idea). They measure the air temp on that side of the tank. Air temp and the temp where the light is focussed can be 10-20 degrees off or more. Just make sure your measuring the actual spot where the light if focussed. IR thermometers are best but as long as it's something you can put right on the basking spot to see how hot it's getting you should be alright. That calcisand is bad stuff all the way around. Beardies can't absorb the calcium in it and it impacts even large adults. I'd stick with paper towels or newspaper for your babies, I know it's not the most attractive but it's the safest. Some people like to use filtered playsand with adults. It still has some risk of impaction with it, but is usually alright on adult animals. A lot of breeders are now switching over to shelf liner, it looks pretty nice and is easy to clean. I still use good old paper on all my animals (paper towels on babies and newspaper on adults).



Sean

Heart Mountain Herps

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• thanx guys..beardy ate plastic - bigbaddad, Sat Apr 10 09:09:33 2004
• RE: thanx guys..beardy ate plastic - heartmountain, Sat Apr 10 09:37:54 2004
• ambient..??????? - bigbaddad, Sat Apr 10 09:48:27 2004
• RE: ambient..??????? - heartmountain, Sat Apr 10 10:02:39 2004
• plastic thermometer - bigbaddad, Sat Apr 10 10:06:14 2004
• RE: plastic thermometer - heartmountain, Sat Apr 10 10:15:06 2004
• A few things about repitle products manufactureres.. - wideglide, Sat Apr 10 10:34:08 2004