on the bearded dragon forum you'll see it all the time. People are worried about how much UV their reptiles are getting, but they don't care that their basking spot is only 95 degrees.



I use fairly hot temps. My bearded's tank has a hotspot that gets as hot as 130 or 135 degrees right under the light. He usually basks off to the side of that (temp gun usually reads him at about 100 even), but he does like to go right under the bulb when he wants to get heated up fast or when he needs help digesting and whatnot. For my uro I use a retes stack (well, due to height restrictions right now because I put more soil in, it's only one section, but it works). Right under the light it gets around 145. She goes there to get heated up usually and then shifts off to the side where it's more around 115-120.



So where they might usually bask at the temps most people provide (speaking for those species, not monitors), they do also use the high temperatures, so it's still important to give them it.



Looking around on the monitor forums has really changed my way of thinking for my reptiles, and now I see stuff on other forums that just doesn't make sense to me anymore. I think that's a good thing.

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