Maybe its just me but 2/ 60 watt bulbs and a heat pad sounds extreme for such a small monitor. Is this a screen top enclosure or closed in? Surely you don't need all of those heat sources to heat an closed enclosure of that size. Has to be hard to create a temp gradient with that many heat sources . My guess is... from the information you provided that your animal isnt able to thermoregulate properly. A monitor burrows in order to escape the heat so when those two 60 watt bulbs are too hot for it to bare it goes down only to find more heat? All you need is one of those bulbs and if the basking temp is off with just one then simply raise the platform.



Good luck and save the heat pad for winter.
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James Grigsby

Newark,Delaware



Animals Kept include:

0.0.1 Varanus Salvator (Gator)

0.1.3 Varanus Exanthematicus (Adisa "long term captive" other 3 "yet to be named hatchlings"

2.0 Ferrets (Chaos & Kasha)

1.0 Cat (George)

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