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RE: The old heating debate

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Posted by: chris_harper2 at Fri Oct 22 08:51:40 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chris_harper2 ]  
   

I just re-read the thread. For Iguanas and Monitors I would think a baseline temperature of 79* to 81* would be more than enough. I don't think increasing the room temperature is a good idea.



Instead I think you want hotter basking areas, and you want to do so with as little wattage as possible.



A radiant heat panel might provide a hot enough basking area for an Iguana. I'm not sure as I've never used one to provide a signficant hot spot. It might be worth checking them out.



But for a monitor, or if the RHP's are not hot enough for Iguanas, then halogen lamps and CHE's provide the most heat per wattage of energy. At least according to my testing.
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