Or do i put the heat lamp on the otherside of the tank
#Just got my leopard gecko! Do I put my heat lamp over my heat mat?
serene lodge
marble vessel
huh
yea
heat mats aren’t recommended nqa but in order to maintain a hot side you would put both of them on the same side
naive dawn
!heatmats
pearl wyvernBOT
Heat mats do work for keeping a leopard gecko alive. However, they are highly inefficient heaters, and they are not generally recommended as primary heat sources. Heat mats work by heating up a surface that they are touching (which is why they can't be used on the side of a tank; leos can't get on the sides!), but they lack the ability to raise ambient (air) temperatures, which leads to an unnatural shift in temperature between the warm spot and the rest of the enclosure. This also means that heat mats cannot create a good temperature gradient across the enclosure. Additionally, they only produce IR-C, which only heats the surface of your leopard gecko. This type of heating is less efficient, meaning your gecko needs to stay on it for longer, and it is not similar to the heat from the sun that they would get in the wild (IR-A and IR-B)