Not basking in basking end?

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Not basking in basking end?

Postby MissMeg » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:53 pm

Does anyone know why Ruckus is basking in his non-basking end? There is a MVB at that end, Its 84f (Im working on upping the temps)
The basking side is 98 and he doesnt really go over there?
Does anyone know why he might be doing this?
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Postby Linnea » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:57 pm

wait, 84 f on the cold side? im sorry. i didnt quite understand...

if he is near shed then it might just be a period where he doesnt feel like basking much.

double check the temps. also the cold side.

other than that, wait for everyone else to answer. i cannot give any good advice about this really :(
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Postby MissMeg » Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:13 pm

Hes tank is kinda funny, one end there is his suposed basking, the other end is.. 84, but in the middle its 74ish So he does have a colder area that he can go to. I know It sounds weird but Once I make his tank smaller then Hell have it more normal, hot, warm, cold. Not Hot, cold, warm.
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Postby Edward » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:02 am

MissMeg wrote:Once I make his tank smaller

Why are you making the tank smaller? :?
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Postby MissMeg » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:56 am

Because His tank cant keep humidity very well. It might not get much smaller. I was going to make it , but ive been looking on kijiji and they have some nice huge tanks. I found one for a tegu that is.. bigger then this one.. lol But it has all the lights set up and heat and everything. His current tank is 6L X 3W X 5 feet tall Its too tall and There is mesh on the upper half, so That where all the humidy goes (This used to be an Iguana cage)
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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:26 pm

To how small?
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Postby MissMeg » Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:00 pm

Like 5 foot long instead of 6 foot. But I was going to drop the roof because its too high and thats where all the moisture is going out off. I was also going to put plexy on the sides uposed to the vynal thats there now. The vynal is there to cover the mesh that it was originally made out so It could hold the humidity better. When he had cocohusk as his substrate it would hold humidty fine, but now that ive had to just us paper because of the worms, its harder to keep the humidity in there.

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