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Originally Posted by nepoez
While I wait for the video to upload can you please answer me this? The basking temp of 140F. Is that supposed to be the temp on the floor surface? Meaning I take a temp gun and measure the temp of the floor right under the bulb. Or should the 140F be the temp of the monitor's skin?
why I ask is because if the floor is 140F, then when the monitor is on the hot spot, the monitor is close to the bulb than the floor, which means his surface temp on his skin will be more than 140F.
So what to do?
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I don`t want to confuse you more than you seem to be just now, so I`ll just say that having the surface of the basking object at 140f will not cause the monitor any harm even though it`s body will be closer to the heat. It doesn`t mean his skin will burn or that his core temp will rise to that temp (again, it`s only the inanimate BASKING OBJECT `S surface).
He is quite overweight, that in itself will cause a lack of activity to some degree, if he isn`t really hungry there`s no need to move about apart from just basking to thermoregulate.
Try measuring either just the tail or just the snout to vent, then double it and you will have a fairly accurate measurement of his total length. If you have a plastic flexible tape measure it will make it a bit easier to do than the rigid metal one.
The enclosure looks very sparce, nothing on top of the soil such as bark or leaves etc, and no sturdy branches/logs for climbing. You absolutely MUST move the MVB to a safe distance immediately (30cm or over).
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