UVA/UVB and a mouse

[SYeretzian]

Scroll to bottom for questions without the book.
I know the title is stupid but the questions are:

I found some bulbs I had hidden , dont even know where they came from. Exo-Terra Sun Glow 50W spots and one 60W regular, just wanted to know what Neodymuim was? Its on the packing, is this the coating around the bulb? Also, wide dome, slim dome, or a ceramic dome which do you think is best for a fixture? 2'2'4' screen cage.

I have a ESU fixture for UVB it came with the bulb and a nice plastic piece over it haha, anyway it takes 18in tubes, this is universal right-I can put a 18in repti-sun in it no problems?

The room I want to put the cham in has a mouse in it, yes hes caged. Long story short he was suppose to be a live feeder for a very sick snake. It was Valentines day and my wife told me not to feed him off. So I kept him since he was a fuzzy and had to cart him out from our room because he runs on the wheel at night and its noisy. Hes never really out in the dayime, I know chams cant hear but with the mouse running on his wheel bug a sleeping cham? The wheel bangs when he runs.

I figured after how many mice fed to snakes over the years I could keep one happy until his last days. Also promised the wife and now im attached to the mouse to top it off.



Questions without the book.

1) What is Exo-Terra Neodymium? What the bulb is coated with?

2) Best fixture for a 2'2'4' sceen cage for UVA-Wide dome, small dome, or ceramic dome?

3) ESU fixture for UVB/universal for tubes?

4) Loud mouse nightime prob? chams cant hear but this mouse is loud. The wheel bangs when he runs.

 

[CleanLineChameleons]

1) Exo-Terra Neodymium..lol...UVA basically means heat. Almost ever light bulb ever puts out UVA...not important. You can use just a regular incandescent 75 watt bulb just as successfully.

2) I personally like to use the ceramic domes that are fairly large with a (as stated above) 75 watt incandescent for heat. I like linear UVB lights...I am using reptisun 5.0s at the time.

3) ESU fixture will work fine with other UVB lights (T8s or T12s which are most lights), but I wouldn't use the normal 7.0 light that comes with it.

4 Mouse noise...who knows... But I am sure there are loud noises at night in Maddy.

-chris

 

[Julirs]

Neodymium lamps are incandescent lamps containing neodymium in the glass to filter out yellow light, resulting in a whiter light more like sunlight

From Wikipedia...

I also use several of those slimline fixtures-just remove that plastic lens since UVB will not pass though it and switch the bulb out for an 18" Reptisun 5.0.

 

[SYeretzian]

Thanks, I know you can use regular bulbs but I found the exo-terra ones and did not want to waste them.