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On behalf of Expert Village I'm Nicole and I'm here to tell you about Iguanas. Iguanas
do require supplemental heating and through lighting. I have his lighting set over here
this one is on right now and this is his basking light this provides a tight beam area where
he can crawl onto this log. That is right inside of his cage and he'll absorb that heat
so he can digest and just keep his body warm. They obviously don't produce their own body
heat so they need the supplemental heating. I do have these lights on timers so around
7:30 at night this one clicks off and this one clicks on. What's in this one is a inferred
bulb they do not see the right lighting so it doesn't disturb their night pattern but
it does provide adequate heat so that the temperatures don't drop to low over night
in his cage. Now he also has to have natural sunlight and if you don't provide natural
sunlight you can always use it to provide it in a form of a strip light. Something that
provides UVB rays this is a very important cause UVB rays allow the Iguana to produce
vitamin D and vitamin D is how they absorb their calcium into their bones. Especially
an Iguana calcium is very important because they need it to be a matured size. So the
temperature I keep the temperature around 85 or 90 degrees during the afternoon hours.
During the evening it can get as low as 70 or so in this area. This area down here has
no supplemental lighting so even if he wanted to cool down below 70 degrees he can climb
down here and cool off. I keep it on this side so that it allows thermo regulation and
he can come over here if he's cold and he can bask in the light or he can move down
to the cooler area during the day if he wants to cool off a little bit. After I put the
Iguana back in his cage he did go right over there to the light he's hanging on the side
there. He's absorbing some of that heat from that bulb and he's seems to be calming down
quiet a bit. He's not using his log which is what I provided it for he weights there
quiet a bit and absorbs the light. He actually doesn't feel the heat on his belly I believe
he is still hanging there because he's a little bit frightened still. But at the same time
he's cold so he is trying to get to the light. What he doesn't realize is that Iguanas can't
sense the heat from their under bellies is which why you don't want to provide your Iguana
with any sort of heat rock. As a main source of heat because they can actually burn themselves
if they sit on a heat rock to long. Because they are unable to sense the heat.