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To complicate things more, lol, there are some in the field that are dead set against any LED sources for daylight at all because LEDs don't emit any UV-A but bearded dragons have a fourth eye receptor specifically for UV-A in addition to the three colored ones. From that article: "If the LED...

Yup. There are also now a few LED + UVB bulbs on the market, but the initial testing I've seen by Sarina Wunderlich and Frances Baines on them tells me they are not ready for primetime. Some are downright dangerous. With regards to DHP, I stopped using them alone for daytime basking heat since...

Very true! I have my halogens on such a setup. I do also have a very expensive top of the line dimming fluorescent ballast but even with that, the fluorescents will start to flicker during ramp up/down once the tubes are a few months old so I've stopped trying to ramp those. Can't really dim...

Both daylength and average temp changes throughout the year. As well as sunrise and sunset times. The 12-hours-all-year-long definitely works, but does not mimic BD natural environment or what is actually going on outside my window. Unless you live exactly on the equator and there was no tilt to...

I got a hold of a bunch of smart plugs where I can set them to turn on and off according to my local sunrise/sunset times and a plus/minus offset time. For example, I can have my metal halide go on at sunrise + 3 hours and go off at sunset - 3 hours. How would you stagger these three lights...

After some thought, I think it’s possible to accomplish what i envisioned in my original post with a combo of a “smart” plug/timer and a “dumb” dimming thermostat that has no timers built in. There’s a number of smart plugs (Phillips hue being one) that can be programmed to turn on/off with the...

I’ve never used a herpstat so wondering if it could be configurable with a smart timer or smart outlet. The outlet itself has a built in sunrise/set calendar built in and would provide power to the herpstat only at those times. Not sure if that would be possible.

I have for the longest time been using an EcoZone controller that allows me to manually program in different sunrise/sunset times by month as well as season appropriate changes in heat. I have it set up where the enclosure gets 14hrs of light in July and 8hrs in January. There is a gradual...

It will be hard to accomplish this in a closed top 4' wood enclosure. I can set up 2 basking spots in my 4' glass tank, but it's open top. One spot on left is at 100, second spot is in the middle and at ~95-100. Cold end is at 82. Question on the Mega-Ray: I recently got a bulb (100W)...