Myth?

[privet01]

I don't think the care sheets are misstating anything about the preferred temps. From what's been posted, you are talking about the temp in the basking area. It appears in all cases your FBT's have the ability to seek other temps when they choose. Might be a different story if every part of your viv was at elevated temps, though the 84.6°F vs 80°F is not really significant enough to debate about, IMO.

What's happening is not unlike us as humans wanting to go lay on the beach in 95°F (35°C) to 100°F (38°C) temps or even get in a sauna that might be 180°F (82°C) or better. Our "care sheets" for humans would probably say we like it between 59 °F (15 °C) and 77 °F (25 °C )

And what's more, we don't know if it's the temp that they are preferring or does instinct tell them that they will benefit from vitamin D synthesis if they lay there and therefore they put up with the higher temp. Similarly we put up with the higher beach temps to get that great sun tan....... or did before they scared us to death about skin cancer <<grin>>