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Hey guys! I don't know if my temperature gauge might be slightly off but it's brand new so I doubt it. I think one of the reasons my bearded dragon has lost 90% of her enthusiasm when hunting, ignores anything but live food and eats very rarely these days is because while most of her tank is in the toasty 80s, her basking spot is also in that temperature range while apparently it needs to be in the low 100s or at least upper 90s. It should be because I'm using a very strong powersun mercury vapor bulb that has worked very well for me in the past. It might just be that the tank is a little higher than most but this hasn't really been an issue into the past couple months. She was cool to the touch the other day and quite aggressive so this is a problem I want to address quickly and cheaply. my family keeps our very cool this time of year which makes it difficult to raise terrarium animals because our summer becomes their winter but I closed the vent to the room which seems to have fixed 80% of the problem and the warm weather outside is taking care of the rest except for when it drops into the 60s sometimes. It's still a few months too early for me to turn on the heat or run the space heater in that room and I also want to know the same thing because I'm going to start raising orange head roaches soon and they won't really breed under 80 degrees and the 90s are ideal but the heat emitter I have over their 20 gallon is only topping it off at about 75. She's refused enough food as it is and I want her to stop brumating so can anybody suggest an economical and simple way to make her basking spot a lot warmer and also heat a roach enclosure into the 80s and 90s?