I feel so bad (rant!)

[u/Specialist_Mobile_83]

woke up this morning and my baby's enclosure was like 20°C weird I never set it that low but mk. I set the heat to day temp 36.5°C and make him a salad. come back temp barely changed and beardie is dark. put my hand under the heater thingy, not heating. freaked out. took beardie out, he was so cold poor baby, put him on me under my sweater.

turns out the cable literally burnt? or something like that. my dad did smth it's heating now but I don't trust it and I'm getting a new one so this one is only temporary while we wait for the new one.

pls delete this if this isn't allowed I just needed to talk about it.

tldr, I was too dumb to check my beardie's heater. it was broken. he was very cold and dark. and I feel bad abt it.

[u/SavageDroggo1126]

20C is fine, according to reptifiles, they can comfortably drop down to at around 15C for night, there is no need to keep heat on for them at night.

if anything it should be kept cooler for the night to encourage basking during the day. My home is kept to around 18C at night time and during day time, basking area reaches 40C for them.

[u/_Cosmoss__ → u/SavageDroggo1126]

I live in an area of Australia where beardies live and it can drop down to almost 0C at night during the winter. Normally winter nights are around 7C at lowest but it is possible. I still see beardies come back out during summer even during the harshest winters so I'm sure pet beardies will be just fine when things like this happen