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I am pretty new here and consider myself to be a novice since a lot of today's knowledge and technology is far advanced from where it was the last time I had a chameleon, but to say that you have too much UVB based on simply having two lights seems to be a bit unfounded (not trying to be rude or...

So after asking around with some lighting people I know I couldn't come up with a reliable conversion for UVB measurements using the spectral analysis graph above and the uW/cm2 that is used for lighting recommendations so set off to find a UVB meter. Realizing that I should have asked at work...

I have a 15 lb cat that sits on the top of a 55 gallon tank on the screen top (metal grid, not window screen) and tries to catch Cuban Anoles all day long. They don't care and he is never successful. That said, he has never broken into a room before and window screen is different from metal...

Here's the spectral output of the bulb and ballast combination I'm talking about (PFO-HQI ballast). There is no UVB (perhaps a tiny bit) and the UVA seems to be pretty low in output (from 320-420nm). Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for the info, good to know... I will repot them, spray them down with some soap, and then quarantine them for a few weeks and then use them in the enclosure.

Might be a little bit too labor intensive - have too many kids to spend that much time washing a plant! :)

I bought a number of plants the other day for various herp enclosures, including my daughter's new veiled, and realized that all of these had been sprayed with insecticides. In speaking to the botanist, the pesticides are Talstar and Avid. Neither appears to be one that is absorbed by the...

I have old T5s in my garage as well, but they are too long for my enclosure. That said, do you derive heat from your T5s as well? I know they produce very little, but i would think what you do get would be beneficial. In reefing people usually run a fan blowing along the bulbs to remove heat...

Halides work for years, but as you mentioned, degrade over time. Studies for reefs show that their color starts to hit at around 6-9 months and at about a year they tend to be "worn out", but again, not measuring UV here. Certainly they will still provide lots of heat...

Interesting, will have to become better versed in the basics of what is used here. Whereas the hobby seems to be using very small wattage bulbs which don't produce as much heat as you'd like, reefkeeping uses high wattage bulbs - smallest is usually the 70 watt HQI bulbs - that produce a lot of...

Hello, new to this forum and rusty to chameleon keeping, it has been almost 20 years since I last had a veiled. Anyway, I am an avid reef keeper and have two lights I am thinking of using for the veiled I let my daughter buy. I have metal halides (400 watt fixtures) and was wondering if...