Tips for Heating a Salamander's Cage

Video Transcript

"Now tiger salamander don't require high temperatures. They can be comfortably kept about 70-75 degrees and even cooler than that. In some cases, if you keep salamanders too warm, fungus and bacteria can breed in a tank. In some cases, they can skin infections, they'll blister out and the salamander will die. You definitely don't want to keep him out. You don't want to keep him really warm. Keep about 70-75 degrees, and at night they can even cool down to the 60s. That's fine for tiger salamanders. You don’t want to put an under the tank heater on them. These guys are slow moving. If they sit on out under the tank heater, they can actually cook themselves. You definitely don't want a basking light. That will bring the air temperature up way too much, and you don't need UVB bulbs. They don't need daylight or UVB full spectrum bulbs. They are mostly nocturnal; they come out at night. That's when they do most of their hunting. That's when they do most of their foraging."