Keeping your bearded dragon warm at night can be a challenge. These reptiles are arid-dwelling desert lizards, so they can only tolerate so much heat and humidity. If it’s too hot or cold in your home, your bearded dragon will feel it. The same applies to the other end of the spectrum – if it’s too humid (at least for these desert reptiles), they’ll also feel it. Keeping a bearded dragon warm is not just about giving them a basking spot that’s close to 80 degrees Fahrenheit all day long, but also about giving them a place where their metabolic process is as efficient as possible without overheating or undercooling. They need to be able to thermoregulate efficiently in order to maintain their body temperature between 68 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit. In this article, we explain how you can keep your bearded dragon warm at night.
How To Keep A Bearded Dragon Warm At Night
A Decent Thermometer
If you’re keeping your bearded dragon in a glass tank, you may use a thermometer to check the temperature. You can buy thermometers at any retail pet store. But if you’re keeping your bearded dragon in a more natural setting, such as under a tree or somewhere else in nature, you’ll have to measure the temperature using another method.
A Cooling System
Most bearded dragons require low humidity and high temperatures to thrive. While placing your bearded dragon on a heated basking spot during the day will help raise their body temperature, it doesn’t help if they stay too hot or too cold at night. For this reason, it’s important that you have an efficient cooling system for nighttime use. This is especially true if you keep your bearded dragon outside of their enclosure during the day – they can get too hot while basking and also get too cold while hiding during the day. There are several ways to cool off a bearded dragon during the night. If you have a glass tank, you can use a fan or air conditioner to blow cold air on the side of the tank where your bearded dragon is sleeping. If you don’t have a glass tank, you can use an aquarium hood (or even an automatic aquarium filter) to blow cold air onto your bearded dragon at night. You should also keep in mind that while keeping a bearded dragon warm is important, it’s also important to keep them cool at night.
A Shade
If your bearded dragon has a basking spot that’s close to 80 degrees Fahrenheit all day long or if they spend most of their time hiding in the shade during the day, they might not need much extra heat at night. However, if your bearded dragon spends most of their day under rocks or in other dark places with little sunlight and low temperatures, they may still need some extra warmth.
A Heat Lamp
If you have a heat lamp, use it at night to raise the temperature of your bearded dragon’s sleeping area. If you don’t have a heat lamp, you can use a ceramic heater or an electric heating pad to warm up their sleeping environment.
A Nighttime Humidity Chamber
If your bearded dragon has a basking spot that stays above 70 degrees Fahrenheit all day long, it’s probably not necessary to keep their sleeping area at a lower temperature at night. However, if they spend most of the day under rocks or in other dark places with low temperatures and high humidity, they may still need some extra warmth at night. For this reason, it’s important to keep their enclosure humid during the day and cool during the night by using an ambient humidity chamber. This is especially true for bearded dragons that are kept outside during the day; if they get too hot while basking in direct sunlight, it can be dangerous for them.
A Bearded Dragon Temperature Range At Night
- Healthy bearded dragons often sleep at night at temperatures between 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit.
- A bearded dragon that is sick or dehydrated may sleep at lower temperatures.
- Baby bearded dragons are more sensitive to temperature than adult bearded dragons; some baby bearded dragons may not be able to tolerate cooler nighttime temperatures and will need a higher nighttime temperature than they can tolerate during the day. Baby bearded dragons that are stressed from being transported, handled, or handled too frequently may also need warmer nighttime temperatures than they can tolerate during the day, especially if their enclosure is kept cool in the daytime.
- Bearded Dragons that are housed in basking spots that stay above 80 degrees Fahrenheit all day long will probably be fine sleeping at night at lower nighttime temperatures than they can tolerate during the day (usually around 75 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Bearded Dragons who spend most of their time under rocks or in other dark areas with low sunlight and low humidity levels will probably be fine sleeping at night at lower nighttime temperatures than they can tolerate during the day.
- Bearded Dragon Lighting Bearded dragons are nocturnal and require a dark, quiet environment to be safe and healthy. There are, however, some exceptions to this rule. If your bearded dragon is kept in an enclosure that has indirect light, it may be okay for them to sleep at night if you use a ceramic heat lamp or a dim red heat bulb that doesn’t produce much heat. If your bearded dragon is kept in an enclosure with fluorescent lights all day long, it will probably be fine for them to sleep at night if you use a ceramic heater or an electric heating pad that is turned off when the bearded dragon is sleeping (or if you use a reptile basking light). It’s best not to use incandescent light bulbs at all. Incandescent lights put out more UVB radiation than any other form of artificial lighting and pose the greatest health risk to bearded dragons.
Need To Know Before You Start
- Bearded dragons are nocturnal, meaning they are active at night.
- Bearded dragons need a dark, quiet environment to be safe and healthy.
- If a bearded dragon is kept in an enclosure with fluorescent lights all day long, it will probably be fine for them to sleep at night if you use a ceramic heat lamp or an electric heating pad that is turned off when the bearded dragon is sleeping (or if you use a reptile basking light).
- It’s best not to use incandescent light bulbs at all. Incandescent lights put out more UVB radiation than any other form of artificial lighting and pose the greatest health risk to bearded dragons.
- If your bearded dragon is kept in an enclosure with fluorescent lights, it will probably be fine for them to sleep at night if you use a ceramic heat lamp or an electric heating pad that is turned off when the bearded dragon is sleeping.
Bearded Dragon’s Some Feature
- A bearded dragon’s skin is covered with tiny scales. Scales act as armor, helping to protect the bearded dragon from injury when it is attacked by other animals.
- Each of a bearded dragon’s legs has three clawed toes. These claws are used for defense and for climbing on branches and rocks.
- Bearded dragons have no teeth, but they do have a pair of small, sharp fangs in their mouths that can sting if they bite another animal or person.
- Bearded dragons have large eyes that enable them to see well in the dark because their eyes contain a layer of light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors, or rods and cones, that allow them to detect light even at night.
- Bearded dragons spend most of their time asleep during the day because they are nocturnal creatures that are active at night when there is less light available for them to see with their eyes and that makes it harder for predators to catch them.
Final Word
To say about a bearded dragon is that it is an amazing pet and it can be kept in the home. But to keep them in a home, you must make sure that these dragons are very well taken care of, and have a proper environment to live in. You must also make sure that they are not stressed out. If you do this, then you will have a very long and happy relationship with your bearded dragon.
