After visiting an expo, I brought home my first BP yesterday, an 8-month old female Super Pastel
While I was there, I picked up everything for her tank and set it up based on my past few weeks of research, however I can't seem to get my temp/humidity right.
I am currently using a heat lamp with an infrared bulb (was informed that would allow me to leave it on at night) for heating the warm end of her home. The warm end is currently sitting at 90-92, but the thermometer I have at the other end was showing 70 this morning, on its way back to the 75 it was showing last night (both of which are too low for her good health).
I also can't seem to get my humidity to stay above 40% (should be 50-60% I believe?). She has a good-sized water bowl (large enough to fully soak if she chooses to), and I have tried misting with a spray bottle, though I'm concerned about getting her aspen too damp. I'm guessing that the heating bulb is having a detrimental effect on this.
Am planning to buy her a UTH pad tomorrow after work, should I use it in conjunction with the lamp? Without the lamp? Any suggestions for misting or getting the humidity up if I keep using the lamp?
This is my current setup, until she grows out of it (turned the lamp off for the picture as the red washes out everything). Both hides are identical, and I plan to pick up digital thermometers and hygrometer tomorrow as well.
Being completely new to reptiles in general, any and all advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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