Horizontal Heat Gradients

[Patrick Long]

I was going to post this in Morelia, but figured it was semi "advanced". LOL


I was reading into Chondros, and stumbled across multiple references to "Horizontal Heat Gradient".

How would one achieve this?

Does anyone here even do this?

[Rapture]

Pat, all that means is that you have a warm side and a cool side. They mention this in regards to keeping aboreals because it's a common misconception (or not, I know of a very respected breeder that still uses vertical cages) to think you can keep an aboreal species in a tall enclosure and that the animal will perch on the high perch if it wants to be warm and on the low perch if it wants to be cool. The problem most keepers find with this is that the animal will always choose the highest perch no matter what the temperatures are. So, you want the enclosure to be wide enough to offer a warm area and a cool area that the animal can get to while still perched on the highest perch. This is a vertical gradient vs a horizontal gradient.

[JoMo]

That says it all !

[Patrick Long]

Yeah cause thats what I read, that they always go to the highest, and the horizontal heat gradient would ensure the right heat on all perches.