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We have the heat mat because she needs the heat for her underbelly to digest the large amounts of food she consumes each night. We used a heat lamp, she refused to come out of her hide or else she squinted her eyes, and as soon as we switched to the mat, she has eaten more than before and is twice as active. The heat does get shut off at night though. We just added more plants yesterday, will upload a photo soon. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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![]() You use a basking lamp set up over natural stone to create the basking spot, the lamp then also properly heats the rest of the viv, the lights are then set to turn off just after dusk and come on at dawn, along with a UV setup.
If the viv is correctly setup like this, the heat mat is a then just a waste of time, energy and money. The natural stone absorbs and releases heat and provides the warth to the underbelly for a Leo's digestion. |
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Well, like I have previously said, that did not work for us, and she is sensitive to most lamps other than what we have had now for nearly a year. She has UVB. We get advice from the YouTube channel, Leopard Gecko, she uses only mats for her geckos. The lamp and stone method is not the only capable way of providing the gecko with heat, so don’t recommend only what you know and use, because there are other options. We found the mat works for us very well, so we are not going to decide now to switch when everything is working perfectly. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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Very true, and like i told you, you can set it up using a heatmat, but as i also explained, this is older husbandry and not effective when you start scaling up the size of the enclosure. Its not opinion, its fact, heat mats are not designed to warm spaces, they are designed to create a localised basking area. And before you say "recommend only what you know and use" i know of several other methods, thank you, and i have tried most if not all of them, the one i have explained, along with other experienced members on this board, is the most effective, most aligned to their natural behaviours and evolution and also the recommended up-to-date care method. Its entirely your choice what you do with that information, i only ever intend to inform, not instruct. You want to ignore it and stick to what you are doing, fine, but as you said yourself, its not warming the rest of the viv properly, which is why i gave you a method that would. |
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And while we are talking about the failed attempt you had at using a basking setup, if i am remembering the correct thread, you were using a ridiculously high wattage bulb suspended over the viv and too high a UV output.... which is why it was squinting and avoiding light exposure. I'll re-iterate one part from what i said about a basking setup: "If the viv is correctly setup" That would not include using the wrong bulbs, at the wrong basking distances. |
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