Heating Uromastyx Lizard Habitats

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Nicole and I'm here to tell you about Uromastyx. Uromastyx come from areas of the planet where it's very hot and dry, they are desert creatures. So what we need to do to make sure that the Uromastyx is able to survive in your home is you need to simulate the temperatures and humidity of the desert regions. In her cage over here I got this heat stone over here and what that does it provides a nice basking area for her to lay on and digest. The heat is very important to digest in and I also got the sand stones piled around it to make it sort of a natural cave. With that heat stone it's part of the base of that cave. She's able to really lay under there and collect a lot of the heat that she needs to be able to digest correctly. I also got this up here is a ceramic heat animals need to keep an overall temperature of about 80-90 degrees for 10-14 hours of the day. These temperatures need to be able to drop sharply during the evening time to about 65 degrees. These animals, remember these animals are from the desert they are made up to stand the heat of the desert and the coolness of the desert nights. So this is a animal that is very easily kept in the desert states such as Arizona. Now I also got a basking spot supply for him by keeping his heat emitter really close to this top of the cave here, he likes to climb up thEre and bask. What that provides him is an area that is at least 120 degrees cause they need to be able to reach their internal body temperature of 120 degrees to digest properly. This is a common mistake of most Uromastyx owners. If they do not survive, the most probable cause would be lack of heat. "