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I recently made a new set up for my BW Tegu and the hot spot (per inferred gun) went up about 10 degrees. The hotspot is now around 125-128 degree, coolside is around 80. I am using Megaray 160w and 100 Watt flood. My question is should I downgrade the flood to smaller or is 125 degree hot spot ok for him? The mega ray and the flood are about 18-20 inches above his hot spot.

I would lower the basking temp to anywhere between 105 and 110 degrees.
Wil

Well winter is approaching and my reptile rooms humidty drops to around 20-30% even with sprays, it takes a lot just to keep heat up.

How hard is this going to be on my tegu?

>>Well winter is approaching and my reptile rooms humidty drops to around 20-30% even with sprays, it takes a lot just to keep heat up.
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You can try closing the vents in the cage or covering the screen to keep the humidity in the cage. Then place a bowl of water under the basking light. Others humidify the room to bring up the humidity.

I changed bulbs once and temps went to 125-ish in the enclosure of a female B/W. She did not seem to appreciate the extra heat and was quite eager to scratch her way out. Since then I've always tried to keep temps under 110-115.

Mines is a devil, its hard to pick him up, he loves to bite finger tips off and i try to hold him everyday. Hes about 4 monts old

i call him wildman

Your hot spot is OK
But the cold spot is too hot. In the 65-77F is beter.
Try a 60 or 75w flood in place of the 100w