UV Light Question
- Thread starter Campy
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Brad Ramsey
Retired Moderator
Not the right light!
http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/2007/12/lights-and-lighting.html
-Brad
http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/2007/12/lights-and-lighting.html
-Brad
dodolah
Retired Moderator
nahhhh..
UVB ray should be like sun (white) not red..
tha one probably a night basking light..
which is not exactly useful for cham
Brad Ramsey
Retired Moderator
Yeah...It's still not the right light.
You need a flourescent tube : Zoomed repti-sun 5.0 is the best one available for providing your cham with the UVB he/she needs to produce D3.
The lamp you're talking about sounds like a sunlamp for a bathroom or sauna...or perhaps it's a mercury vapor bulb ??? If it's the latter, you need to take some specific precautions and ask someone on the forum who uses them about it.
I don't use them so I am of little help with that.
-Brad
You need a flourescent tube : Zoomed repti-sun 5.0 is the best one available for providing your cham with the UVB he/she needs to produce D3.
The lamp you're talking about sounds like a sunlamp for a bathroom or sauna...or perhaps it's a mercury vapor bulb ??? If it's the latter, you need to take some specific precautions and ask someone on the forum who uses them about it.
I don't use them so I am of little help with that.
-Brad
Campy
New Member
ok, Well, I am not going to get my dad to do it... He obviously doesn't know what the hell he is doing! lol... But I can't blame him. He was trying to help.
He is coming up with me to Ottawa after xmas anyways.
If it were me, I would have looked for the same one I had, which I believe it was a tube one as well.
He is coming up with me to Ottawa after xmas anyways.
If it were me, I would have looked for the same one I had, which I believe it was a tube one as well.
So Pirate55
Member
ease up on your dad. more than likely, he just didnt know any better. the bulb you are an infared heat bulb, mainly used for reptiles to provide heat without the being in their visible spectrum at night or during the day. I know that zoo-med has an actual picture of a chameleon on their day(blue), moon(black/purple), and infared bulbs' boxes. Not to mention, depending on where he got it, he probably had some "reptile expert" telling him what to buy.
Just tell him it's a fluorescent tube reptiSUN 5.0 UVB, and he should be able to pick it up.
Just tell him it's a fluorescent tube reptiSUN 5.0 UVB, and he should be able to pick it up.
Electric
New Member
assuming you mean ottawa canada, don't bother going to all the little local pet shops nor petsmart for a reptisun tube. I called pretty much every place in town (including gatineau) and they all only carry the exo terra repti glo's for some odd reason. (I say odd because they still sell other zoomed products like basking lights and reptivite)
The only place I found that sells them is big al's/aquarium services (they go by both names for some reason), kinda funny that a fish oriented store sells them but the reptile specific places like little ray's doesn't. A place in gatineau sells the iguana light 5.0 which is supposed to be the exact same bulb as the reptisun but I went with big al's cause I couldn't get any real confirmation that both bulbs were identical.
The only place I found that sells them is big al's/aquarium services (they go by both names for some reason), kinda funny that a fish oriented store sells them but the reptile specific places like little ray's doesn't. A place in gatineau sells the iguana light 5.0 which is supposed to be the exact same bulb as the reptisun but I went with big al's cause I couldn't get any real confirmation that both bulbs were identical.
