basking light
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jr andrade
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Your going to need a blue daytime bulb i use a 75 watt and thats still a bit hot, i dont use night time bulbs like the one your inquiring about, i dont recommend using this bulb for night time unless its under 65 degrees where you live but these temps can easily be handled by your chameleon if it is adult.
babies should be kept at 70-72f
to answer your question, the red bulb can be used with the dome lamp, any bulb can.
babies should be kept at 70-72f
to answer your question, the red bulb can be used with the dome lamp, any bulb can.
I have been keeping chameleons for over 20 years and I keep the babies in the low 80's. The low 70's is too cool IMHO.
You can use a regular household incandescent light bulb in a dome hood for a source of heat. The wattage should be whatever it takes to make the temp. right. Personally, I don't use a basking light for very young chameleons....their small bodies cool and warm up more quickly than adults do...so I keep their cage tempratures more even. I use a double fluorescent hood with one long linear Repti-sun 5.0 UVB light in one side and a regular white fluorescent tube in the other side. (Its thought that chameleons don't recognize colored lights as a source of light to bask in.)
You can use a regular household incandescent light bulb in a dome hood for a source of heat. The wattage should be whatever it takes to make the temp. right. Personally, I don't use a basking light for very young chameleons....their small bodies cool and warm up more quickly than adults do...so I keep their cage tempratures more even. I use a double fluorescent hood with one long linear Repti-sun 5.0 UVB light in one side and a regular white fluorescent tube in the other side. (Its thought that chameleons don't recognize colored lights as a source of light to bask in.)
summoner12
Avid Member
Yes. I foundmy chams liked the warm glow of a normal household lamp or helogen lamp over the colored lights. It was rare they woudl bask under red, because it looks odd to them and blue also must have been odd looking because they didn't seem to go to it.
For my adults I personally use 50w halogen PAR20 flood lights. I angle them and this helps the cham to bask more easily. Think about how a cham basks and when. They bask in the morning to warm, when the sun is lower in the sky. So heat lamps pointed straight down doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. Especially since the light pointing down can cause dorsal crest burns much easier than a lamp that is pointed into the cage (from the top) at an angle.
erik775
Established Member
ok cool...cuz my cham is about 5 or 6 months old...
erik775
Established Member
hmmm...ok...my cham is about 5 or 6 months old and shes a female veild...idk if that matters too or not but i just changed the bulb to a .....exo terra...sun glow...120v...60hz...40w bulb...is that ok???Yes. I foundmy chams liked the warm glow of a normal household lamp or helogen lamp over the colored lights. It was rare they woudl bask under red, because it looks odd to them and blue also must have been odd looking because they didn't seem to go to it.
For my adults I personally use 50w halogen PAR20 flood lights. I angle them and this helps the cham to bask more easily. Think about how a cham basks and when. They bask in the morning to warm, when the sun is lower in the sky. So heat lamps pointed straight down doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. Especially since the light pointing down can cause dorsal crest burns much easier than a lamp that is pointed into the cage (from the top) at an angle.
erik775
Established Member
oh yah and i just got the exo terra reptisun 5.0 uvb...
