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The reason she is basking is to get the metabolism going, she will increase this behaviour as she gets more advanced, this allows her to keep the parasite population low witch in turn allows more food for egg production.

Parasites die in only 4-5minuts at 40c, some African parasites from sub Sahara can tolerate 45-50c this is why uromastyx bask at much higher temps.

Theirs really nothing to fear about parasites, bad husbandry is much more dangerous to lizards.

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