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  1. ccole93

    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    So so sad. Thanks for nothing.
  2. ccole93

    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    Do you have any advice to offer or are you going to continue pushing a useless argument? I'd like help with my lizard minus the attitude. If you have no advice, you're getting off topic and ruining my thread.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    It is when you're being unnecessarily rude.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    No, this is an ongoing problem in forums like this. I'm in a reptile group on Facebook and we frequently discuss how abysmal these forums along with the other tegu forums are. It's not hard to deliver advice politely. Well, for most people it isn't, but it seems like many of you are much worse...
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    Really? Because I put my BRB in her current cage when she was small and she did nothing but hide and bite me whenever I tried to check on her. I've already tried putting the tegu in his cage and he did nothing but hide in a corner and hiss at me. Hm, wonder why? I'll figure it out myself.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    His temps were PERFECT over the summer. LIKE I KEEP SAYING, it's been cold and he's been hibernating for four months so things are off and it's hard getting it back up to snuff. I just wanted some help. The cage works fine so please stop harping on me about it. I've already built him an eight...
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    I do have a fogger running, along with a room humidifier. Humidity, space, and the health of the animal are of no concern. The cage works to perfection. I own a Brazilian rainbow boa that will die without 80%+ humidity. I know how to take care of the pets I own, but due to the cold weather and...
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    My tegu is small enough to rest comfortably in the palm of my hand. He is less than a foot long, thus, his 40 gallon tank is the perfect size. Don't call me "buddy"; I'm a grown woman, not your drinking pal. He has been hibernating since November and has not grown an inch in that time. Chill out...
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    diet of tegus

    I give mine one raw meat/one raw fish/one raw veggie each day. Typically, the fish is always wild Alaskan sockeye salmon simply because it's the best nutritionally. But I'll alternate the fish every week with a few crickets instead to give him more of a balance. These plans will last you two...
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    This has been the longest four months.

    Oh man, congrats guys! That's great that they're waking up. :D I'm working on cranking up the heat for my guy.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    It is proper. It's a reptile tank. I'm not putting my tiny baby tegu in his six foot enclosure yet and I'm not shelling out $350 for a Vision cage. Thanks for not helping at all and being rude. :) I got the spot up to 90! A few people are telling me to use Powersun or wire a GU bulb.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    Oh man... I think it's a foot and a half tall? It's just a Zilla tank from Petsmart. Yeah he has a Lizard Ladder ledge so he can get closer to the UVB and he uses that to propel himself up. Over the summer he kept jumping into the screen... it was kinda weird lol. I'm using a 26W Tropical ZooMed...
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    So should I take off the entire top then? The UVB is clamped to the side of the tank but the screen is still between them and I couldn't figure out a way to clamp the heat lamp so it just rests on top. I'm worried he'll leap out of his tank.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    Yes it's on top of the screen alongside the UVB bulb. I use a spot thermometer and have a few of them set up throughout the tank.
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    Hard time maintaining hot spot

    That's what I did for a long time but I had even worse results.
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