Ambient Air Temperature Control?

[MrBosc]

Hi All,

unfortunatly Mr Rex scares my Girlfriend too much because of the sheer size of him so I have sold him to someone who's not scared of them and will put a lot more time into him. I unfortunatly cannot provide enough time with him because I'm at University sometimes from 7am to 7pm then I have to do work etc so it made sence for my partner to bond with Rex while I wasn't there but he's just too big for her.

So I'm keeping in good touch with my seller and he was curious about the 6 x 3 x 3ft vivarium I also sold him for Mr Rex. I never got round to seting up this vivarium as my plan was to coat it in yacht varnish first, so I'd image a bank of halogen flood lights around a foot off the basking area would be good. But what about keeping the ambient temperature throughout the vivarium of that size? Cermaic bulb attahced to a thermostat in the middle? or maybe more flood lights throughout? Also could you specify how far the bulb or bulbs should be from the substrate.

Thanks All