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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derbarbarian" data-source="post: 219975" data-attributes="member: 39124"><p>I appreciate that man. I was only using the heat lamp at night because I'd usually turn the heat off in my room as I have a really difficult time sleeping in a hot room. As for the substrate I actually switched it out a few days before she passed, I used a mix of shredded coconut husk and repitsoil along with moss, I put it in a big 5 gallon bucket and mixed it together really well, then I put a pretty thick layer of just moss on top of it all. Below the substrate I used about 2 or so inches of aquarium gravel/stone, which I put a screen mesh above the stone to separate it from the substrate. Anyways it definitely sucks losing an animal, I just lost my cat of 17 years in March, I got the T because I've wanted to get another one for quite a while and it's slightly less maintenance than a 4 legged fur buddy.</p></blockquote><p></p>