Blue Tongue Lizard Heat Mat

The stone will absorb heat from the lamp providing warmth from both above and below in the same way that blue tongue skinks prefer to bask in the wild.

Blue tongue lizard heat mat. Blue tongue lizards makes great pets for adults and kids alike find all information about care diet and housing for blue tongues at kellyville pets. Baby blue tongues don t need rescuing. Eastern blue tongues are diurnal day time reptiles and will require the day lights heat lamps to be turned off at night. Lots of lizards are killed or injured by them.

Take a piece of slate tile or flagstone and place it underneath the heat lamp. To keep your blue tongue warm at night place a reptile one heat mat under a reptile one cave or log this will allow the blue tongue to settle on the mat while feeling protected by the ornament. Recommended sources of heat include the use of incandescent halogen and ceramic night time globes along with a heat mat as a secondary source of heating. If you want to have a healthy blue tongue skink this is not an optional piece of terrarium furniture.

Be careful when you use lawn mowers and whipper snippers. Your blue tongue skink will need a high output 10 12 uvb tube light. Like the french blue tongues see snails as a delicacy. They are born independent.

Blue tongue skinks bask a lot in the wild and need uvb light spectrum to produce vitamin d3 in their skin. Vitamin d3 is crucial for absorption of calcium so without it your skink will become deficient and sick.