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What are your Day/Night surface temps (hotside)?

i have heard from acouple of people that 88-90 surface temp during the day on the hot side is good. (please correct me if this is wrong)

i am a little unsure about night time temps though. should they still be around 88 on the surface of the hot side at night?

i am using both a Uth and a light during day.

just uth at night.

thanks

I think the temps should be the same day and night. If the UTH covers half of the bottom of the cage you can get rid of the light.
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0.1 "Tremper" looking Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 tiger crested gecko (peachs)
1.1 Feral cats that we adopted (Fuzzy, and Bear)

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my uth covers 1/3 of my tank. it is 36" long and my uth is on the left side 12". in the middle 12" spot i have my humid hide and then the right 12" is the cool side.

the cool side seems to stay around 70 no matter what i doo to the hot side.

the middle section seems to stay around 8 to 10 degrees lower than the hot side.

i kinda like the light, but i have a thermostat i can hook up to the uth to lower its output during the day if needed.

so you think i should run the hot surface temp at around 88 to 90 day and night?

jason

np
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0.1 "Tremper" looking Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 tiger crested gecko (peachs)
1.1 Feral cats that we adopted (Fuzzy, and Bear)

I'm not a owner of any herps, just a domicile attendant.

My image Gallery