Quote Originally Posted by LilyPad View Post
Firstly, the temperature cannot drop that low or it will kill him. You need to remedy that immediately. I use a ceramic heat emitter on my red eye tank. It works well, no light, and doesn't zap the humidity. I use it in combination with a thermostat. Heat rocks are a no no, it will burn his skin. I'm not sure the heat mats would bring the temps up to 80 degrees when they're dropping so low at night. You may want to bring up the ambient temp to help maintain your frog tank a little better. I know when my house temps dropped to 58-59 degrees, it was a big struggle to get the tanks heated to a healthy level and that was with a combination of heating elements, heat mats, ceramic heat emitter, and an incandescent bulb. Even a space heater in the room with frog would help in addition to a product to heat the tank.

I understand, my room temperature always drops to 60 and below and the tank even lower which is why i spray the tank glass with hot water, avoiding the frog of course, so the humidity and temperature can rise for the night. its risky i know, but it does the job. Thursday im getting the heat mat just in case and placing it under the water bowl since it always burrows the opposite side of the waterbowl. I will also look into the heat emmiter but a 60 watt bulbb is the maximum my lamp could use. would that be a fire hazard if im using the maximum?