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do I need to heat my lizards' habitats now that the nights are cooler? around 65 degrees. should I go with a nighttime heat lamp or an under cage heater. I don't want my babies getting too cold. I've noticed my snakes are hanging out on the heated side (underneath heaters) of their cages now that the weather is cooler.

I am having really good luck with the first product on this page: (Mine came from Ebay for a little less.)

http://www.reptilehavenonline.com/cgi-bin/supplies.cgi?p=thermostats

The mat is thin, like a piece of paper and the thermostat works well. I put the mat dircetly on the bottom of the cage and placed a very thin piece of plexiglass over it and duct taped the glass to the bottom. It is a big cage, and I also have a heated cavern and 2 heat rocks that stay on 27/7. The thermostat keeps it at least 70 at night, no matter how cold I let it get in the house. During the day the basking and florescent lights keep the hot side in the 90's.
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Valerie

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

God bless the USA

Just so you know that plexiglass blocks some heat from reaching the lizards. Good idea though so you can move it.

I noticed that when I put more hiding spots around the heated side Ezra would fall asleep there and act normal again. In Las Vegas the house was a little below 80 at night and he would just want to brumate. Annabella always seems to prefer to sleep on the heated side. Cory loves his undertank heater sooo much as well I have it on the basking side but it is under a tall piece of wood. He likes to spend some time under it during the day with his head in some light that falls through a notch.

for years, and they are fine.

As long as your house is 68 o higher, no real need, they are fine. Just heat them up in the morning.
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Eve / PHEve

Meh. I do. I have a 75w blacklight to add a little heat at night. When it burns out, I will be replacing it with a red one.

I don't heat my Anole or Tarantula cages at night, though.

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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle (Goliath)
1.0.0 Brown Anole (Anubis)
1.0.1 Green Anoles (Baal, Hathor)
1.1.0 Great Basin Collared Lizards (Amon, Amaunette)
0.1.0 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Spiega)
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt (Storm)

I work 13 hour night shifts and keep the house at about 58 degrees while I am gone or asleep. I wish I could afford to keep it at 68 degrees all the time, but I just can't.
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Valerie

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

God bless the USA

My house is kept at 70F(21C) but outdoors just go as low as 32F(0C) now and its getting colder at about -4F (-20C) in middle winter.
Sara's cage is on the border of the window and over one of my home heater. This way, she has cold air and warm soil.
She has made the last winter this way without brumation.

I'm trying to create a northern collared gender :
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Alex & Marie-Ève