Burrowing substrate temps
My hatchling spent most of his first week sleeping under a log, ontop of a heat mat, which was approx 35C constantly, very very low humidity, didnt try to burrow at all.
He has two options for burrowing, a cool side, approx 24-25C, and a warmside, with a heat mat underneath, i've just probed inside his borrow and its 36.7C, this seems very hot for a burrow?
I cannot provide a cooler area than the 24-25 area he has, unless i add a fan, which will mess with the humidty, my house is just to warm for that, its either 22C or above all the time, and thats on a cold english summer day (ha)
I'm new to Sav's, and a little worried that this is too hot for a sleeping area for him, despite it being his own choice, maybe I'm missing something in the setup
Humidity is high thruout the tank, except directly under the basking lamps, it never goes below 70%, I'm going to add some moss aswell to see if I can push that upto 80+. The soil in both the cool and hot areas are moist, 90% humidity inside his burrow right now, I dug a horizontal hole into the cooler area, and it is the same @ 90%
You may have seen my previous posts about it, he's a hatchling living in a 4x2x1.5ft enclosure, just moved into this enclosure from a smaller one I use to keep an eye on new comers for their first week, apart from sleeping in what seems to be too hot a space, he seems fine, active and stuffing his face with everything he can catch etc, damn he can get thru a bulk order of locusts fast haha good job I have a breadin colony of crickets (and soon roaches!)
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