Hi,

I have had my viv now for 1 week and trying to get temps right bfore i get my bd.

I ant get the hot end above 100F, why is this, i have my dimming thermoneter turned up as high as it will go, i have a 100w bulb and a 36" 10% UVB light tube in a 4X2X2 foot viv.

The only time i get 110F is when I hold teh thermoniter 2" incehs from the spot light

what am i doing wrong, please hel i get my bd tom

Thanks
j

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Scooby the 4 month old BD sleeps in the funniest postions and eats all the time

How far away is the basking area from the surface of the bulb?
Where is the probe to the stat?

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its only 8" inches from the baskinng spot and the prob is in the cool end, i have a digital thermo taking the msurments

any ideas, shall i put the prob in the hot end?

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Scooby the 4 month old BD sleeps in the funniest postions and eats all the time

The probe is OK in the cool end, it should be set at 85f. Try raising the basking area up, but not high enough that a beardie could touch the light.
Do you have a bulb guard?

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no i dont havea bulb guard but im going pet shop tom so ican get one thats no problem.

the problem i got is that i hve set the dimming thermo to max with the prob in the cool end and its still not hot enough in the end that shuld be hot and nowhere near 110f for the baskinng sopt

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Scooby the 4 month old BD sleeps in the funniest postions and eats all the time

Is the temp in the cool end what the stat is set to? If that makes sense..

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its set to 85", anyway the prob is in the the end now and the temp is still only 92 errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Scooby the 4 month old BD sleeps in the funniest postions and eats all the time

How much is it being dimmed?

If you don't have enough ventilation in the cool end, the bulb may end up being dimmed too much, which would stop you from getting a good basking temperature.

What are you measuring the basking temperature with? Unless you are using an IR temperature gun, it won't be an accurate measurement of the basking surface temperature, only of the nearby air temperature.

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I am useing a Digital thermoneter, and I have 2 venterlation plastic cirlcles at the cool end at the bottem and 2 at the hot end at the top?

So an ideas thanks, do i need to pt somoe more vents in the cool end?

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Scooby the 4 month old BD sleeps in the funniest postions and eats all the time

In my 4x2 for my rankins I have 2 bulbs - they are both 60w. I am achieving basking temps of about 120-125 degrees (gunned) on my basking spot and it is approx 10 inches away from the bulbs. I don't use a dimmer stat on them though and my cool end ambient remains at approx 77.