Powersun UVB heat bulbs

[DABRUTE]

Should we invest in one for our lizards?

 

[swick]

Hi. I asked this question yesterday and got an equal amount of yeses and no's... I did get one but have only been using is for 24 hours so far, I did have to back it away from the cage a few inches to get the temps right, but I was doing that with the basking bulb before. I wish you luck.
Sarah
1.0 nosy be 1.0 veiled

 

[DABRUTE]

Hi. I asked this question yesterday and got an equal amount of yeses and no's... I did get one but have only been using is for 24 hours so far, I did have to back it away from the cage a few inches to get the temps right, but I was doing that with the basking bulb before. I wish you luck.
Sarah
1.0 nosy be 1.0 veiled

Really? What size cages do you have?

 

[bradley]

I personally do not like them. The more you move the bulb away from the cage the less uv is getting to the chameleon. If using one I always say use a strip uv alongside it on top of the cage so the animal can bask in uv only if it wants. The chameleon does not always want heat and uv.

 

[Video Master]

No need to use a special heat bulb for basking. Use a standard household incandescent bulb for heat/basking light. Then use a linear UVB light from Arcadia (The 6% one is more than enough UVB).

 

[DABRUTE]

thanks for the replies!!

 

[Olimpia]

I personally don't like them either. This isn't a scientific study or anything, of course, and you have to take anecdotal advice with a grain of salt, but when I worked at a pet store this was the bulb we used for our veileds. When we used them on our babies (3-5 months) we had rampant eye issues, where many individuals would keep their eyes closed. And we're talking about 20-30 baby veileds in each batch, not just a handful. When I convinced the store to switch over to Reptisun 10.0s the eye issues stopped completely. The adults were fine, but I feel that perhaps for young veileds there was something very intense about these lights. So I never recommended them to anyone buying a young chameleon, personally.

The two separate lights end up being a better and cheaper option, in the end.

 

[jannb]

Here's the thread from yesterday. https://www.chameleonforums.com/powersun-uv-113740/

I personally wouldn't use them except on a large free range and all but two of my chameleons are panthers and veileds.