Night Black Heat - Panther Chameleon habitat

[GlitterDragon]

Hello,
New to the forum, but have found lots of great information already.

Confetti, a 2 year old Panther Chameleon recently joined my household. We live in San Diego California, so the temperatures don't get too cold, but often our nights get cool and I want to ensure the temperature of Confetti's habitat(he's in a 24x24x48 enclosure, with both a UV light and heat lamp.

Today I purchased a "Night Black Heat" Incandescent SPOT to keep his enclosure at a warm temperature.

Today someone told me, it should have been a "Red Light"

I'd love your thoughts.....

 

[Devokid]

Don't use anything. Chameleons like it cooler at night with total darkness. That is just the pet shop trying to sell you more equipment.

 

[Devokid]

After re-reading your post, you are talking about the night time correct? Because in the day time you can usually just use a regular light bulb in a heat lamp to get the desired temps. (In addition to your UVB bulb)

 

[Cait0420]

I'm in canada our nights get much colder, and I use nothing at night as I've been told by MANY forum members that they need the drop, mind you my chams are usually supposed to have lower temps

 

[Cait0420]

Red bulbs at night are bad as they screw with sleep cycles because chams need the darkness

 

[pigglett79]

Chameleons are fine to go down to the 50's at night. They actually do well to have a good drop in temperature at night to slow their metabolism. You do not need any heat source unless temperatures are going in to the low 50's then you could use a ceramic heat emitter as any light at night can disturb their sleep cycle. I use a red light flash light to look around at the bugs etc at night and if I shine it on the chameleons they always wake up. So I know from personal experience that the red light is in fact detectable by them.

 

[GlitterDragon]

Thank you

thank you all very much!!!

 

[Venutus1]

Chameleons are fine to go down to the 50's at night. They actually do well to have a good drop in temperature at night to slow their metabolism. You do not need any heat source unless temperatures are going in to the low 50's then you could use a ceramic heat emitter as any light at night can disturb their sleep cycle. I use a red light flash light to look around at the bugs etc at night and if I shine it on the chameleons they always wake up. So I know from personal experience that the red light is in fact detectable by them.

so true. so true.