behemuffin
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I've heard 10-12 hours of UVB is optimal for beardies, and I've also heard that overexposure to UVB can harm them. But I'm also a night owl and very much not a morning person!
So currently I have Nara (4 months old) in a viv set to turn on lights/turn off the CHE at 8am, and turn off lights/turn on CHE at 8pm. A nice even 12.
But at 8pm I'm still very much active, and as the evening hours creep in Nara generally becomes more active too. He's fed throughout the day but around 7:30pm when I start settling in in my room (his viv is next to my bed, and I sit on there using my laptop etc) he really starts getting excited, running around the viv and looking like he's hunting, and coming up to the side of the glass where he can see me and watching curiously.
I don't want to turn the lights out on him when he's active and force him to fall asleep. But I also don't want to over-light him or give him too little sleep time! Would it be okay to turn off the UVB, but have the basking light still available till 9 or 10pm?
So currently I have Nara (4 months old) in a viv set to turn on lights/turn off the CHE at 8am, and turn off lights/turn on CHE at 8pm. A nice even 12.
But at 8pm I'm still very much active, and as the evening hours creep in Nara generally becomes more active too. He's fed throughout the day but around 7:30pm when I start settling in in my room (his viv is next to my bed, and I sit on there using my laptop etc) he really starts getting excited, running around the viv and looking like he's hunting, and coming up to the side of the glass where he can see me and watching curiously.
I don't want to turn the lights out on him when he's active and force him to fall asleep. But I also don't want to over-light him or give him too little sleep time! Would it be okay to turn off the UVB, but have the basking light still available till 9 or 10pm?