Ok so I have my little bearded dragon set up in a temporary set up, she is just under 6 inches long, and is in a 10 gallon. (I'll be replacing the 10 gallon with an Animal Plastics "Uromastyx/Bearded Dragon Cage" in a few months. I will get a 20 gallon tanks if she gets too big for the 10 gallon before then (which I'm guessing that she will)
Right now I have a 18" Zoo-Med Reptisun 10.0 UV bulb that runs the length of the tank and a 100 watt Reptile halogen bulb that is being regulated by my Herpstat 4. The UV tube runs 14 hours a day, and the halogen is set to 110 degrees during the day and 85 at night. I have my herpstat set to slowly transition between the day and night temperatures over 6 hours. So at 7 A.M. the herpstat starts warming the basking spot up from 85 degrees, and by 1:00 P.M. it has reached 110 degrees. At 7:00 P.M. the herpstat starts to slowly back off the heat from 110 degrees. By 1:00 A.M. the basking spot is down to 85 degrees. The ambient temperature in the tank during the day is between 78 and 84, and at night it drops down to between 70 and 75.
Sorry if that seems really complicated... but does everything sound about right?
Thanks in advance.
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