I have been spending the last several weeks building a multi cage stack. Its taken me some time and a lot of patience. The two bottom cages are for my breeder males and the cages are 24"x48"x20" (DxLxH). On one side there are two light fixtures mounted to the ceiling and a 36" fluorescent light strip mounted on the top inside of a wall. now i heard that the flood lights are good for basking lights because they are pretty much the same as the reptile basking lights just cheaper and they throw out a lot of light. So i bought two 90watt halogen flood lights today to test out the temps. I put them in in one of the enclosure and it was pretty hot, so i took one out and replaced it with a 100w philips natural light (which doesnt put out much heat but they light the enclosure up very well). I put the probe for the thermometer directly under the bulb on the basking rock and the temps sored to around 130. But then i moved the probe approximately an 1" to the left and the temps went down to about 101-105 (which i want for the basking temp). So the flood light puts the really high intensity beam out, which i really like, but is very hot. Does any one have any suggestions for a basking light? Should i leave the set up like it is because all around that 1.5" circle of heat is about 101 F. Or should i downgrade the wattage to a 75 watt? I need lots of advice for this, i want these enclosures to be perfecto.



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