Do I need a Ceramic Heater
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What species is Oscar, how big/old is he and how warm does it get during the day?
Deevo
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my .02 cents:
Being that my room gets a little chilly here in Toronto, I use a ceramic heater and try my best to keep the room temperature constant in relation to the time of day/night.
It is really important no matter what route you take to allow the temps to drop at night and keep in mind with a spacer heater means the air will dry out faster = more mistings.
You can also try to look up the area that Vields/Yemens are from and see what the weather reports are like generally.
Being that my room gets a little chilly here in Toronto, I use a ceramic heater and try my best to keep the room temperature constant in relation to the time of day/night.
It is really important no matter what route you take to allow the temps to drop at night and keep in mind with a spacer heater means the air will dry out faster = more mistings.
You can also try to look up the area that Vields/Yemens are from and see what the weather reports are like generally.
fluxlizard
Avid Member
Unless your house gets really cold it won't get as cold as some parts of yemen chameleon range - they can get winter night frost in parts of their range.
I allow my veileds to go down to 40. Pretty much all my "heat lovers" like panthers go down to 50 at night no problem. Even hatchlings from day 1.
I allow my veileds to go down to 40. Pretty much all my "heat lovers" like panthers go down to 50 at night no problem. Even hatchlings from day 1.
drmdrm25
New Member
Oscar is a Male Veiled Chameleon. He is about 6 months old. During the day his basking spot is 84F to 85F
carol5208
Chameleon Enthusiast
and they survive, right!!??? I left my two panthers outside one night as I got home later than I should have, they were already asleep and did not want to bother them. I did not realize it was going to get as cold as it did and when I checked the temp when I got up the next morning it read 50. Well that was the morning temp and the sun was already shining, so I know it got down into the 40's. I was mortified and I thought I was going to find them frozen but they were both fine! Not saying I will do this on a regular basis, but just stating that they will not die! I think everyone freaks out a little too much over the cold temps.
59 at night is no problem for Oscar.
fluxlizard
Avid Member
Yah- they survive no problem- they do just great. I keep them outside from spring through early fall. Baby panthers do fine down to 50. I've never let my panthers go lower than 50, but they have always hit right near it quite often from October through May, as once indoors, I've never needed to heat my lizard building to keep it 50 or above- and when nights here are in the teens or single digits, it was always near 50 in the building in the past (keeping about 10-15 degrees warmer somehow at night since the rebuild this past year- I think about half is from a little better insulation now, the other half is probably from all the 12" wide heat tape I ran on shelves this time for breeding insects (almost 100' of it!). I let the insects breed at room temperature before- but that meant not a lot of breeding about half the year.
Anyway- when babies hatch, if it's 50 degrees at night, that's what they've always gotten here and they've done great for many years now.
Veileds I leave outdoors down to 40 in the fall. They do fine at those lower temps. I do keep baby veileds a little warmer- about 45 is their cutoff.
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