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Post by Tesa on Mar 22, 2004 11:03:35 GMT -8
Just a quick note to re-emphasize why NOT to use heat rocks. These things are known to malfunction, causing temperatures to soar without your knowledge. Cold blooded animals do not sense heat in the same way that we are accustomed to thinking about. They recognize heat with a sort of "internal" thermometer (the temperature of their blood). By the time the heat travels through the iguanas bloodstream and alerts it to move away, severe damage may have already occured to skin and muscle tissue. Fresh Burns ScarsThrasher's previous owners had a heat rock. After a year with me and numerous sheds, the evidence is still quite clear. She still has the scarring on the bottom of her foot.  (not to mention the dirty looking color she has on her entire underside.) |
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Post by Lyn on Mar 22, 2004 11:21:33 GMT -8
Good Warning Tesa, heat rocks are dangerous and definitely should not be used...My first iguana in 1994 was heated by a heat rock and spot lamp and luckily didnt get anyburns, but he could have....I use over head lighting only ....Thanks for the important warning...Lyn
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Post by dominick on Mar 22, 2004 12:30:54 GMT -8
Agreed. Cut the cord and leave the rock with the Iguana if they are accustomed to it. For heat, a human heating pad is MUCH safer to use. Wrap it in a towel and keep your Ig toasty warm that way.  |
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Post by prism_wolf on Mar 23, 2004 18:41:56 GMT -8
...but under-body heat only if the over-head is not sufficient... |
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Post by crazymonkey21 on Mar 27, 2004 5:24:55 GMT -8
Ah! It drives me insane, the heat rock issue! When I got Magellan the pet store they asked me if I had all the materials and listed a heat rock as a nessicary material. I quickly let her know how wrong she was. Hopefully they wont be selling heat rocks with iguanas anymore! I dont use them with any of my reptiles. I am very much against them!
Jess
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Post by rocmills on May 29, 2004 10:32:54 GMT -8
I'm with Dom and the rest on this one. If your iggie is really attached to a rock, clip the cord. If your iggie is used to having heat from below, then use a human heating pad with good insulation. None of this is meant to substitute good over-head heating, though.
--Roc
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Post by Kling on Jun 9, 2004 8:25:56 GMT -8
what about am under tank heateris that ok to use i have a heat rock with the cord cut on it my igyy has about 2 big burns on her but now they are scares.
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Post by Merlin on Jun 9, 2004 15:57:39 GMT -8
An undertank heater only heats the surface of the floor, not the air in the tank. Unless the ig is laying on the floor the heater isn't doing anything.
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Post by prism_wolf on Jun 9, 2004 16:34:05 GMT -8
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Post by Jen on Jul 22, 2007 6:52:34 GMT -8
even after cutting the cord the rock is good for holding heat under the basking spot
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Post by {B|@CKGH05T} on Sept 28, 2007 11:39:14 GMT -8
i dint own a ig. yet but i could have told you that heat rocks burn....
hope they the burns get better asap.
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Post by petergunga on Jun 3, 2009 8:19:30 GMT -8
I was at a pet store the other day, and they asked me if my iguana has a heat rock... Haha. I mean, it really is a ridiculous concept if you think about it. Iguanas in the wild spend their entire lives in the trees, not on "hot rocks." When would an iguana ever encounter a heat rock in the wild? Overhead heating and lighting is the obvious way to go |
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