jibba
Well-Known Member
All,
As some of you may notice in my profile pics, I built my own Poly Foam background, which looks great but was giving me the sh***. The reason why is because my baby beardie would climb the background and hide behind the UV and almost try to bask from the background when near the basking lamp.
Not to mention the amount of crix that can hide between the grooves etc.
Anyways. so I all backgrounds off, including the sides. To my surprise, I actually like the white plain malemine inside the enclosure. Looks cleaner and more pro.
I was monitoring the temps as usual and the cool side was dramatically cooler (by about 3-4C than when I had the poly foams in place. (I had a problem where the cool side was not cool enough).
So I have concluded that the poly foam was acting as an insulater (similar to a tea flask). My beardie went to his basking site within minutes and was there for the longest I ahev ever seen him, he looke more aware, more interested in what I was doing etc.
Yeah so final conclusion is, I will NOT be using Poly Foam backgrounds again.
Thought I will share that with you.
As some of you may notice in my profile pics, I built my own Poly Foam background, which looks great but was giving me the sh***. The reason why is because my baby beardie would climb the background and hide behind the UV and almost try to bask from the background when near the basking lamp.
Not to mention the amount of crix that can hide between the grooves etc.
Anyways. so I all backgrounds off, including the sides. To my surprise, I actually like the white plain malemine inside the enclosure. Looks cleaner and more pro.
I was monitoring the temps as usual and the cool side was dramatically cooler (by about 3-4C than when I had the poly foams in place. (I had a problem where the cool side was not cool enough).
So I have concluded that the poly foam was acting as an insulater (similar to a tea flask). My beardie went to his basking site within minutes and was there for the longest I ahev ever seen him, he looke more aware, more interested in what I was doing etc.
Yeah so final conclusion is, I will NOT be using Poly Foam backgrounds again.
Thought I will share that with you.