[URL="http://www.vitalexotics.com/water-monitor-black-dragon-care-sheet/"]Achieving basking temps of 120-150 degrees is not that hard. You do not need huge wattage or special bulbs. Many successful keepers achieve these temps using 45 or 65 watt flood (not spot, as they produce too concentrated of light focus which can burn your monitors skin) bulbs that you purchase from your local store. The key is to mount your bulbs in the enclosure in a manner that the monitor can bask within a safe range of distance from the bulbs, yet close enough to reach the desired temps. Mount your bulbs on something or in a way that will protect them from being damaged or reached by your monitor from the top and sides, while leaving the bottom open to allow the heat and light to broadcast down onto the basking area. Your monitor will most likely be able to reach the bulbs from the underside if it wants to, but usually these animals are intelligent enough to learn not to touch them, and it they do touch them for a moment, by using low wattage (45w or 65w) the temps of the bulb are usually not enough to hurt the animal. Numerous bulbs are mounted in a line with 10-18 inches in between them to provide a larger basking area for longer or adult animals. You want to heat the entire animal, not just one small area of it as this will cause your animal to burn the focused area as it tries to heat up the rest of its body. Design your set-up with the idea in mind that you may have to adjust the basking area height or position to get your desired temps or positioning in the enclosure. UVA and UVB producing bulbs may be used to provide or in conjunction with your basking lights, and while if used properly they should not hurt your monitor, there are many successful keepers who do not use UVA or UVB at all for their enclosures. It is believed that due to the diet of whole prey items, monitors receive much or all of the proper vitamins/nutrients needed for proper growth and development without the assistance of UVA or UVB. Many herbivorous reptiles seem to benefit from UVA or UVB but this does not seem to be the case with monitor[/URL]s