Bearded Dragon Heat Placement

Video Transcript

"Ok, now that we have all of our heating devices we need to talk about how to properly place them on the reptile enclosures to get your optimum heat. First and foremost, we have our day bulbs, and our night bulbs, ok. What we're going to need is we're going to need one light fixture for your day bulb, on one side of your aquarium, ok, and you're going to have another fixture for your night bulb on the other side of the aquarium. In between these two fixtures there will be another fixture. That's going to be for your UVB light. Now it could be a florescent fixture for the long florescent tubes, or it could be a compact one. It's entirely up to you. The compacts though will run you a little bit cheaper for the fixture and the bulb, rather than the long tube fluorescents. So what you're going to want is you're going to want your day bulb on this side, with probably a good hundred to one hundred-fifty watt day bulb, ok, that's a white light bulb, not a red or a blue or a black. That bulb is going to run for about ten hours a day, ok, just like normal daylight time. Your other bulb is your night bulb. That's going to be the red or the black or the blue. You're probably going to be using a seventy-five to one hundred watt light bulb. And that's going to be on twenty-four seven. You're never going to turn that off. Then, you're going to take your heat pad, if you chose to use one, and that's going to go on the side of the tank with your night bulb, ok. What that's going to allow you to do is create a heat radiant. You should have one side of your tank that is reaching upwards to one hundred to one hundred and ten degrees, and the other side of your tank should drop anywhere down to eighty-five degrees. That way the reptile can regulate his own temperature by going back and forth. So it's very important there's a heating radiant, or the reptile going to overheat, as well as be under heated."