Basking light went out this morning

[Cheyenne1996]

So my basking light for my beardie went out this morning and my husband has the car today. So I have read that I can use a flood light. Which we have two of. So I when I put that in it looked very bright. Is this okay? And is it going too give off the right amount of heat? I have a digital thermometer in her tank and will be monitoring temps. But I was just wondering if this would be okay for now?

 

[CooperDragon]

Yeah that should be fine. Keep a close eye on temps though. I use a halogen flood light as my main basking light and it works well. I have it on a thermostat that dims it as needed and before that I used an adjustable lamp stand so it was easy to tweak everything to keep the right temps. Using a nice bright light for basking is best as long as you can maintain proper temperature gradients.

 

[Cheyenne1996]

Okay. I also forgot too mention this is an led floodlight. Is that okay?

 

[HKzForDayz]

Led lights do not put off heat. It needs to be a halogen flood.

 

[Cheyenne1996]

Okay. The only other lights we have are the spiral ones. Will that work?

 

[HKzForDayz]

No those don't put out heat either. in order to get adequate heat, you will need a halogen flood or a basking bulb, but a regular light bulb would be better then nothing if put in a dome with a reflector.

 

[Cheyenne1996]

Ok. Ill have too stick with the led for now until I get paid. Its weird they dont give off heat. Her basking spot today was at 105

 

[HKzForDayz]

LED lights dont produce infared waves, which is what produces the heat output from halogen bulbs.

If you are getting a reading of 105 at basking spot from a digital thermometer with probe under just an led bulb, either your thermometer is broken, or that isnt really an LED bulb.

 

[Cheyenne1996]

Ok so I did switch my basking light to a 60 watt house hold bulb. I hope this will work until tuesday.

 

[CooperDragon]

That should be fine.