UTH for baby gecko?

jjaj02 · 11-08-04, 04:14 PM

I was just wondering if I can use a UTH for my baby leopard gecko. I will be bringing her home in a week or so and want to get stuff set up asap. I bought one of those Faunatanks to keep her in and its the step below the biggest model you can get. Is this fine or do you have any suggestions.

concept3 · 11-08-04, 05:04 PM

as long as your animal has access to a warm part of the tank, I beleive leopard geckos are around 90f it does not matter how you acheive the warm spot. Just be careful with uth because if you dont have a dimmer on them they can reach heats as high as 180f.

RazzleMcDazzle · 11-08-04, 06:01 PM

I have been using ceramic tiles over the UTH (with paper towel in between to avoid grass breaking - glass+ceramic=bad news), and I average at 89f. I have a 8W (8"x8") exoterra under a 20g high aquarium, and I use a thermostat unit. When turned to 95f, I used an external thermometer and it never got above 93f. This is all in my environment, yours maybe different, but avoid direct contact with pad, as it is hot.... put a dimmer switch in an extension cord, and plug UTH in it if you need to get heat turned down.