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Anyone have a link to a good care sheet. I have been told heat is the biggest factor but I looked up a few cares sheets and they have different ambient temp and hot spot.

you can always refer the the info on www.anapsid.org. however you need to make modifications for terrestial animals (compared to a more arboreal I.iguana)

I couldnt even tell you my hottest spot temp because I judge it on the actual feel of the animal (lol) on my enclosure, I have a spot bulb, 2 150 cermaics and a zoomed 10.0 flouro. I also have a hot air humidifier that i run about 4 times a week (its a "human grade" kind from target, no filter and the BEST $50 i ever invested for my guys)

Read around on this board, alot of us learned about cylcura by expierence after having other herps and rasing babies of our own

I have dug through the forum a decent amount. I don't see how you keep a good ambient temp with such a open cage, unless you live in a tropical area.

I figured there may be a good rhino specific care sheet out there I could go off of.

Space heater.... You can get one a Walmart for cheaper than anywhere else.

Of course you dont see how I keep her temps up....cause you don't see that I have 3 other adult green iguanas, a breeding colony of blue tongues, and my tortoise enclosure in that same room.

Space heaters are great too, as said in the next post, but the, hot air humidifiers heat very well too

Shotz,
Glad you came over. There are not alot of care sheets on cyclura. Keeping them like a green iguana is a mistake. Its close, but there are differences. Under my basking light is 134 ish, in the winter it drops 10 degrees. The two best links out there are below. The second one is state of the art right now. The trick is to understand it and adapt the info to your situation. There is a lot of cyclura experience here.

http://www.herpnut.com/wordpress/?p=2

http://www.iguanafoundation.org/images/articles/WI_Iguana_Husbandry_Manual_complete.pdf

jf

Awesome, finnaly a response I can put to use. Thanks for taking the time.

Well my house stays around 75 ambient in the winter time so there should be no use for space heater. I am using 120watt MVB with a retes stack (5 level) for him to regulate his body temp and it provides a hide as well. The MVB gets the very top of the retes stack about 130 and he sits right under it so I guess it is not too much heat for him. Using a 100 watt heat emitter for night time which keeps ambient night temp around 80-83, about 90 right on top of retes stack at night.

I think I am going to get a 10.0 linear bulb as well because I am not sure how good the Exo Terra Solar Glos are for UVB output.

With my bearded dragons I use the MVB and the repti-sun 10.0 15 inch linear right next to each other and the lizards get as close as they can, they are about 5 years old, I think I will try the same set-up.

I don't use Rete's stack.... I just have an elevated basking platform where my bearded dragon climbs up to bask if they want to....