Quote Originally Posted by Caffeinatrix View Post
It's about 85 on the cool side and 92 on the warm side. I've got heat lamps and a UTH, on the warm side.

I was offering rats weekly, and wound up with temporary pet rats for a few months. Since the weather warmed up, he's been eating every two weeks. I had tried offering every week, when his appetite picked back up, but he wasn't having it, which is where I established the bi-weekly feeding schedule. For quite a while, I would buy a rat every week, and just make it as comfy as I could, until he decided to eat. Eventually, that got to be too much of a hassle, and my cats freaked the poor rats out. I don't know how much he weighs, I'll pick up a scale tomorrow, and find out.

I didn't figure reptiles went into "heat" like mammals. I presumed they have some sort of internal timing that tells them when to mate, though. I never worried about sexing him, because I don't intend to breed him, so his actual gender doesn't really much matter to me.
Is your UTH being regulated by a thermostat? Where are you measuring temperatures from and what are you using to do so?