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01-Sep-05, 05:36 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-05 Location: Western Sydney Age: 24 | | |
I was wondering about night time heating and is it actually required, currently I run ceramic heat lamps on thermostats 24x7 but is this required being as though in the wild they are exposed to the drop in temperature at night.
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01-Sep-05, 05:55 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-04 Location: Gold Coast | | | |
I lower the night time temp by 5-10 degrees depending on the season.
my temps currently are 30 during the day and 24 at night
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01-Sep-05, 07:18 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | |
My monitors get no heating at all at night, they wake up when the lights come back on in the morning and sit straight under the heat lamps.
All my pythons get a decent night time drop. It does depend on what you are keeping really and the average nightime temperature where you are.
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01-Sep-05, 07:44 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 34  | | | |
Any animals that are local to my area dont get night heating. Those that arent found in my area do get night heating but its lower than day temps and on warm summer nights its turned off completely.
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01-Sep-05, 09:35 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-05 Location: Western Sydney Age: 24 | | | |
I currently have Coastals, Diamonds and Bredlis and as of next week I will also have a pair of Olives, I am in sydney and at the moment nite time temp in my room which is where they are wouldnt get below 15C at the lowest.
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01-Sep-05, 10:32 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: G>F>A>C AFRO!! | | | |
its up to you, ppl will say 15 is fine, others will say it need to be warmer. you need to make the descion on what you think is best. During the warmer months i keep mine on the same temp 24/7, that changes coming into cooling........
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01-Sep-05, 10:35 PM
| | | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Brisbane | | | |
I think the best thing is to try to mimic the original environment they were from. Anything local wouldn't need special treatment.
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01-Sep-05, 10:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-04 Location: Melbourne Gender:  | | | |
st how do you lower the night temps? Do you turn the stat down at night and up in the day or do you have a night setting thingo like on the microclimates?
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