I think you have started a great conversation about after-dark activities with monitors. It's got me thinking about my husbandry a bit as far as "lights out time" goes. I do provide about 14 hours of light in their enclosure, and will probably continue to do so. I have a few personal reasons for this, mostly having to do with my being selfish and wanting to see the active little runts during the waking hours. But it has got me thinking about night time temps.



Alot of care sheets (a good start in most cases, bad to use as a bible) depict keeping night time temps in the 70s. Now I know for a fact that atleast two of my three ackies (Doc and Sleepy) are sometimes active at night. Doc almost always is. Sleepy will get up sometimes, Bashful, well the name is suiting, Bashful is burrowed in about sunset here and comes out last in the morning. So my thought is that I SHOULD probably provide a little warmer temp, atleast one one end, after lights out. If Doc would make use of that time to burn off the two zillion roaches he ate during the day, why not?



So rambled for a minute. Anyway, my question for you or anyone else. How has the night time activity observed changed your husbandry? I believe I had read some of your posts where you mentioned 24/7 lights for the enclosures, but what about your outdoor enclosures? And the question I am actually very curious about was your experiment with provide heat but not additional light that you mentioned early on in this. What was the effect you observed?



Many thanks.
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-Andrew

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