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Hello, new to this forum. I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona and I adopted a 3 year old Sulcata (about 10" front to back) in May. He lives in our big backyard and I've built him a mounded burrow that he uses every day.
I'm concerned that the weather is getting too cold for him at night and I want to install a heater. The burrow is 18" deep at the back and he has dug a secondary chamber leading off to the side that is about 24" deep. I was thinking of installing a radiant heater on the underside of the top of the chamber (it is flat wood with mounded dirt on top). The sides of the burrow are concrete block. Here in the Phoenix area it can get into the 40's at night and sometimes (January or February) we can even dip into the 30s. It's still in the 70's during the day and gets into the 100's and 110+ during the summer.
Lately he has been slow getting up in the mornings and usually doesn't exit his burrow until the sun is on it at about 10:00 in the morning. He's been going to bed at about 5:00 PM when the sun is getting low on the horizon. I was thinking of a radiant heater to provide warmth overnight from about 6:00 PM until about 9:00 AM.
Thoughts? Thanks!
I'm concerned that the weather is getting too cold for him at night and I want to install a heater. The burrow is 18" deep at the back and he has dug a secondary chamber leading off to the side that is about 24" deep. I was thinking of installing a radiant heater on the underside of the top of the chamber (it is flat wood with mounded dirt on top). The sides of the burrow are concrete block. Here in the Phoenix area it can get into the 40's at night and sometimes (January or February) we can even dip into the 30s. It's still in the 70's during the day and gets into the 100's and 110+ during the summer.
Lately he has been slow getting up in the mornings and usually doesn't exit his burrow until the sun is on it at about 10:00 in the morning. He's been going to bed at about 5:00 PM when the sun is getting low on the horizon. I was thinking of a radiant heater to provide warmth overnight from about 6:00 PM until about 9:00 AM.
Thoughts? Thanks!