Heating Questions

[Caudatadude28]

I hear that belly heat is very important and believe that but I am using heat bulbs right now and my leo is digesting and pooping just fine. I have a warm area with the substrate being 92-96F. She seems very happy. Is it really needed to have UTH's. Heat lamps that warm up the substrate seem just fine to me.

 

[acpart]

Some people do keep the warm side warm with an overhead light (kind of like the sun, you know?). I think it's fine as long as the light doesn't bother the gecko (some albinos, for instance are bothered by it) and that there isn't too great a heat dropoff at night, especially in the winter.

I think there is a greater latitude for gecko husbandry than is sometimes admitted.

Aliza