GeckoFanboy
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I hope you read this, Elizabeth.
I think it was at the tail of last summer, Scooby's old UTH pad died. He has a 20 gallon long tank, and for years I had been using a small 8" x 10" UTH pad under his warm hide and most of his moist hide. When that old pad died, I bought him a larger pad (that you had actually suggested to me years back). I don't know the exact measurements of it, but offhand it's like 11" x 17" (???). Everything was normal all winter long after I put the new pad on the tank. Scooby loved the new larger pad and could sprawl on the floor in more areas than before.
So now that summer has rolled in, for the last two weeks, I keep finding him in the cool hide, sleeping during the day. At night, he's been laying out on the edge of the warm area of the floor. The ambient temp of his bedroom is fine. When spring arrived, I set the temp on his UTH thermostat to 90° (it was 92° throughout the winter), and have checked his tile floor with a point-and-click thermometer and it is 90° at its peak temp. The temp on the floor of his moist hide is 87°-88°. I just think it's odd that he's been recently sleeping in the cool hide all day. The other day, I lifted up the cool hide and picked him up and he felt so cool. I handled him for awhile to warm him up and he seemed okay. He doesn't seem ill, but his new behavior with the hides is kinda odd. The only thing that's changed is this is the first summer with the larger UTH.
What do you think?
I think it was at the tail of last summer, Scooby's old UTH pad died. He has a 20 gallon long tank, and for years I had been using a small 8" x 10" UTH pad under his warm hide and most of his moist hide. When that old pad died, I bought him a larger pad (that you had actually suggested to me years back). I don't know the exact measurements of it, but offhand it's like 11" x 17" (???). Everything was normal all winter long after I put the new pad on the tank. Scooby loved the new larger pad and could sprawl on the floor in more areas than before.
So now that summer has rolled in, for the last two weeks, I keep finding him in the cool hide, sleeping during the day. At night, he's been laying out on the edge of the warm area of the floor. The ambient temp of his bedroom is fine. When spring arrived, I set the temp on his UTH thermostat to 90° (it was 92° throughout the winter), and have checked his tile floor with a point-and-click thermometer and it is 90° at its peak temp. The temp on the floor of his moist hide is 87°-88°. I just think it's odd that he's been recently sleeping in the cool hide all day. The other day, I lifted up the cool hide and picked him up and he felt so cool. I handled him for awhile to warm him up and he seemed okay. He doesn't seem ill, but his new behavior with the hides is kinda odd. The only thing that's changed is this is the first summer with the larger UTH.
What do you think?
