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I've got the UVA and UVB lights, a heat lamp, a night lamp, and one of those sticky heat pads that sticks to the bottom of my terrarium, but I still cannot get the temperature up. It hovers around 70, and never gets higher than 75. Any suggestions for getting it higher?

I personally wouldnt think that is too low, here in florida i keep my anole cages outside and it gets below 70 and i dont worry about it because there are so many roaming around outside anyways.

Ryan

I agree that 70 degrees is fine some times but would not recommend it for all the time. I try to keep my overall temp in the cage at around 80.

How big is your enclosure? Seems to me you should be fine, but one thing I would suggest is closing off the top with something so the heat does not escape to rapidly. Keep in mind of course to not put anything between the heat/light lamps and the enclosure, just close off any portion on the top of the tank that is not being used.

That's a lot of heating devices....
Get another thermometer, and make sure that your thermometer is functioning properly, it would be terrible if the temperature was registering too low due to a problem with that.

How big is the enclosure? It's hard to imagine why that many heating devices wouldn't be keeping the temperature up. Have you tried getting higher wattage, hotter bulbs for the heat lamp?

I'm able to keep a 30 gallon aquarium at proper temperatures for leopard geckos with 2 human heating pads and an infrared heat lamp.