I am setting up a vivarium for dart frogs. It's a thirty gallon long, and the room it's in stays at about 70 F. Would a 40 watt incandescent light be good for heating the vivarium to around, say, 78 F? I plan to have a deep substarte on the tank bottom, so undertank heating pads are out.
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Heating for dart frogs
Vivarium
Jun 18, 2003 05:00 PM
Replies (2)
Randy27
Jun 18, 2003 06:21 PM
You can also place the undertank heating pads on the side of the vivarium glass.
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Randy
Lawrence, Kansas
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hecktick_punker
Jun 19, 2003 01:45 PM
Hi,
I've always avoided using incandescant light bulbs to heat dart frog terrariums because they tend to dry things out. If you do use one I would go for an infra-red one that can be left on all of the time. I think 40 watts would be too high of a wattage and a 15 or 25 watt bulb would be better, just make sure to do temperature checks.
Often times the heat produced by the flourescant lighting is enough to heat the terrarium. On the few cages of mine that do require extra heating I use heat pads but stick them on the side or back of the terrarium behind the background rather than under the tank. This works pretty well and usually heats and area of the tank up by 5 or 10 degrees. Good luck,
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