Quote Originally Posted by RoyalRegius View Post
Forget what you heard about BPs not needing mats. That's flat out false.

Belly heat is the undisputed standard when it comes to a hot spot. Balls don't want a 'basking spot'

Not that I'm saying you're wrong - and not to say that all people who agree with the heat mat way is wrong either - but I've had so many bits of contradicting advice when it comes to viv setup for BPs. And it confused me so much that I basically observed the local reptile shop's BPs and asked them how to set up my viv in the same way. Advice I got was to forget heat mats and stick with ceramic for a variety of reasons, and there's plenty of other advice that mimics that so I'll see how it goes

I'm not using the ceramic to create any kind of basking or hot "spot" (at least, not intentionally) I'm using the ceramic to create the temperature gradient from 88 down to 82, which is what I have now

PS - I think in my haste and enthusiasm I simply mucked up the habistat probe a bit, as I have the plants back in and we're cruising at the 88 > 82 gradient I had pre plants. So happy days and lets not talk about my incompetence to put bloody plants in a viv...