Lighting

[baggedd5087]

so when im setting my basking light and uvb light up can they be right next to each other or do they have to be a certain distance apart? and for the basking light should i use my desk lamp or a silver dome that i've used to keep my baby pigs warm in the freezing winters that we have in colorado?

 

[summoner12]

Put them together... close.... You want the cham to be getting light/heat from the UVA lamp and for him to get UVB at the same time. The skin needs to be a curtain temp for the body to start processing the calcium and utilizing the UV rays projected at it.

I like to use flood or spot lamps for heat because the light is more focused rather than a household lamp that is more diffused. You can use a normal household lamp in a reflector.... but the effect isn't really the same....

The reptarium I had my female veiled in...

her new cage...

Pat's cage....

Ya get the idea.... place the lamps side by side... or even tilt the heat lamp up a tad to angle the light. toward the UVB lamp.

 

[SS4Luck]

Kevin whqats up with the rim of that black aluminum light in the second pic? looks like its been badly welded or something

 

[summoner12]

That is what hard water does when it dries. Kinda like when your car gets sprayed by the sprinklers over night.

I don't get this sort of thing anymore because I use RO. I should bust out the CLR and clean that thing up.

 

[SS4Luck]

That is what hard water does when it dries. Kinda like when your car gets sprayed by the sprinklers over night.

I don't get this sort of thing anymore because I use RO. I should bust out the CLR and clean that thing up.

damn ive never seen ahrd water stains that bad lol

 

[summoner12]

The flash prolly makes it look worse... but think about it... two years of hard water misting... every day for at least 30-40 total minutes a day.....

 

[SS4Luck]

true, i guess ive just never thought about hard water build up