I have a green iguana which I keep in a large set up and use an electric room heater with built in thermostat to heat the enclosure.Because of this kind of heating I was forced to keep 86 degrees 24/7 with no heat gradient.
I am now using a small computer connected with an analog thermostat so I can have both a heat gradient and a temperature drop at night.
The reason I am telling all this is that I am worried of any 'damage' made to my lizard kept this way for some years,I thought people over here would be more appropriate answearing such a question.Also I would be glad if you gave some details on the need of many reptiles to slow down their metabolism at night and why whould this be of such importance.
Any links would be nice too..
Thanks
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Temperature drop at night,some help..
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I can't give you a definite answer since I have never kept an iguana at a contant temperature. (I did keep iguanas a long time ago...but during the winter months, they always had a temperature drop at night to the mid 70'sF.) )Do you not have a UVB/full spectrum light or basking light on during the day that would increase the temperature somewhat?
Here's an article that might give you some insight into the situation....
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/18/3/1105
This one mentions a space heater and temperatures that go along with it...
http://www.vetcity.com/Infocenter/IguanaCageTemp.html
One more that you might be interested in...
http://www.anapsid.org/parietal2.html
One more thing...I hope the heater is NOT inside the cage with your iguana....it could get burned.
Thanks a lot for the help,the heater is inside a cage
