Blue Tongue Skink UV Lights

The Halmahera Blue tongue skink is a cold-blooded reptile.  Cold blooded means the blue tongue skinks for sale need to rely on their environment to produce the correct temperatures. Providing a warm side and a cool side will allow the blue tongue to thermoregulate themselves by moving to whichever temperature they feel they need at the moment. A cooler side of the cage should be around75-80F and the hot side should have a hot spot of 92-99 Degrees.  Keep in mind that the temperature gradient can be achieved in a number of different ways. Also the most popular method with glass tanks would be an under tank heater like a heat mat or a heat lamp from above.  As blue tongue skink breeders, here at CB we keep our skinks with full spectrum UV.   Lastly, your UV should be on a 12 hour on/off cycle.  Keep in mind that there are many breeders that successfully keep and breed blue tongue skinks for sale them in rack systems without using any UV lighting.