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I'm trying to get the temperature up on the basking spot... thankfully, I don't have the dragon yet because I'm having some problems

I had my digital indoor/outdoor thermometer just laying on the bottom of my glass tank. The lamp I was using is a 160 watt powersun bulb. I got the temps up to 104.

So I got a piece of cork bark to raise the basking spot (about 14" from the powersun) and added a 60 watt regular house bulb. So now I have 2 bulbs facing the probe, but the temps are only hitting 94 degrees!

Is it that cork bark is a bad heat conductor? What should I use as a basking spot?

Use river rock from our gulf and disinfected it with diluted bleach and cooked in over for half hour and then made a basking spot out of that...I am only using a 75W bulb and my temp gets up to 112 degrees...the rock holds the heat nicely!!!!!!!

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buttfly catfishes that I like to watch when I am relaxing....The waterfall sound of the filter running after a busy day at work is enough to put me to sleep!

some kind of fish........maybe some small piranhas? lol........I used to keep them.

Try using logs or rocks as basking spots. I don't think cork bark is very good at holding heat. Also, are you sure that your thermometer is working right?