Budgett's frog heating Q

[EightLeggedFrea]

I'm concerned I'm not keeping my juvenile Budgett's warm enough with the infrared heat lamp (50W) I have part of his cage under. I haven't seen any stool in a while and he's getting really fat, but he can't be impacted because he ate a lot of nightcrawler last night. The temp guage reads at least a little above 80, but I don't think that's the actual water temp.

Would it be more effectiate to use a submersible heater instead? My neighborhood Wal-Mart has these, the smallest of which supposedly heats the water to 78 degrees. and if using one, is there any precautions I need to take with this so it doesn't burn my frog? I've never used these things before.

I'm also going to just move him into a 10-gallon with plenty of hides and let him grow into it. Would a submersible heater be best in this situation or is the heat lamp still fine?

 

[EightLeggedFrea]

C'mon I need some answers!

 

[ragnew]

Your heat lamp should be fine Eightlegged. I use Zoo-Med's 75 WATT infrared, and it heats my 10 Gallon Budgett's tank up nicely. Dingers has grown like a weed with using just heating lamps as my heating sources as well.

Just curious, what's the temp of the room that you're keeping the frog in? My herp room stays right around 80 degrees on it's own, so that could also be the reason why my tank stays nice and warm without anything other then the lamp itself.

Hope that helps. Oh yeah, I checked out the pic you posted on Fat Frogs, and to me, it looks like the frog is sort of tilted because of a "gas bubble". Dingbat use to get these every once in a while after he'd eat a hefty batch of night crawlers. That could be why your frogs tilting the body as well. I don't think it has MBD.

Good luck man! I think your frogs perfectly fine though!