Pacman settling in time?

[cyris69]

Ok, I'm finding it hard to keep a constant temperature for the entire tank. The heat lamp helped during daytime but what can I do at night? The cold side is dipping at 71F, I can't leave the light on since it will mess with their day/night cycle so what can i do to fix this issue besides putting them in a walk in closet with my inverts. I want to keep all this on a budget which so far has been broken but I'm only missing work on the colder side of the tank. They move around as needed which seems to be working but what else can I do.

I've gotten their humidity correct, day/night cycle, heat on the UTH side on point, bigger pacman is eating better. However, the baby will not eat. He looks healthy and is going to the restroom just fine as well as seems pretty alert. Can they manage without 80F across the board in the tank?

Lastly, for the baby, can I place him in a small KK inside his 10gal tank to preserve humidity and heat? If so, do I just use moist paper towels as a substrate or just a small layer of water.

[GrifTheGreat]

You can UAE an infrared bulb at night. These bulbs do not affect their day night cycle. You can place the baby in a KK to give it some security and try and get him/her eating. place the little one in substrate water than paper towels so he/she can burrow be sure to get a small water dish for him/her while in the KK.

[cyris69]

What does UAE mean? Sorry still learning all the jargon. Do you mean the nonlight emitting IR ceramic bulbs or the red coated ones? I'm using two sunglows atm but its gets to way to hot too quickly since I dont have a rig or stand for the lights. I will post the setup in a bit to you can take a look at the tanks. Seems that the 60gal UTH died over night and I just noticed it so two of the 10gals were not being heated over night though it was 78F in my house.

I would like to try and heat all the tanks with one bulb The zoomed nocturnal IR bulbs come in 50-150watt which should I go with?

[GrifTheGreat]

[QUOTE=cyris69;112057]What does UAE mean? Sorry still learning all the jargon. Do you mean the nonlight emitting IR ceramic bulbs or the red coated ones? I'm using two sunglows atm but its gets to way to hot too quickly since I dont have a rig or stand for the lights. I will post the setup in a bit to you can take a look at the tanks. Seems that the 60gal UTH died over night and I just noticed it so two of the 10gals were not being heated over night though it was 78F in my house.

I would like to try and heat all the tanks with one bulb The zoomed nocturnal IR bulbs come in 50-150watt which should I go with?[/QUITE]

Sorry that was supposed to say use. If you want to view them at night use a nocturnal infrared bulb not CHE(Ceramic Heat Emitter)
If you are just wanting to heat them without any visible light use a CHE. Neither of these will affect your frogs day/night cycle.

When using heat lamps always and I do mean ALWAYS use a lamp that has a summer switch so you can accurately dial in how much light and heat the bulb produces. I recommend that you purchase one. Fluker's make up to an 8.5" dome lamp with a summer switch.