A heads up!

[VegasIguana]

It's starting to warm up in some parts of the country!!! Check the ambient temps and basking spots. Raised ambient temps will elevate the basking temps. Also, if your iguana basks by a window, the temperature can get really high, especially through the glass when sunlight hits it directly!

At 9:30am this past Sunday, in southern California, V's basking temp (with no heat lamp) was 93 degrees. At high noon, with no heat lamp, it was 103 degrees.

You may want to vent the room, to help with the ambient temps. And also have an additional off/on setting on your timers. In some cases, where temps are hard to monitor during the day, you may want to consider getting a thermostat.

Right now, during this heat wave we're having, I've V's lamp to go on at 6:30am, off at 9:30am, on again at 3:30 pm and off at 5:30pm.

Des.

[Tesa]

Sound advice there!! I've been playing with Thrasher's lights for the last couple of days to get her stabilized. And wouldn't ya know....mother nature dropped us back down to 34 tonight

[Lyn]

Wow, I would be happy if our temps reached 50 lol...we are finally getting a LITTLE warmer now but I keep an eye on those ambient temps myself....Lyn

[SurvivorSteph]

Thanks Des. I had taken out one of the CHE's in Gil's enclosure, but need to put it back because our temps have dropped again

[VegasIguana]

guess what!?

it's party cloudy in the mornings!!!!! argggggggggggh!!!

so until this weather get less wacky, i'll prolly head home at lunch to much with temps. i figured if it's cloudy in the morning, i can just be concerned with highnoon temps, when the marine layer has burned off.

SurvivorSteph said:

Thanks Des. I had taken out one of the CHE's in Gil's enclosure, but need to put it back because our temps have dropped again

[SurvivorSteph]

It's SO frustrating!

argggggggggggh!!! is RIGHT!