incandescent night red heat bulb

[fattonyisfat]

I have read some places that incandescent night red heat bulb does not disturb his nocturnal cycles. I have also read that it will keep him up. I have also read somewhere that I shouldn't use incandescent night red heat bulb nor a ceramic heater during the day.

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does any one know for sure which ones I can use when. I have a incandescent night red heat bulb by Zilla that I am using on him 24/7 and I want to know what I should do. I ordered some ceramic heat emitters but now it looks like those are not good for daytime heat.

Does anyone know for a fact:
1. whether incandescent night red heat bulb can or should be used on my beardie
2. whether I should replace it with ceramic heat emitters.
3. Or should I use something else

I have his UVB light set up (ReptiSun 10.0 UVB Bulb) and right now he is chilling under his night red incandescent heat bulb
http://www.zilla-rules.com/products/night-red-heat.htm

Thank you.

 

[LQDragons]

for daytime heat, use bright white light, such as a halogen flood lamp. For night heat, if enclosure temps drop below 60*-65*, use a CHE. Hope this helps

 

[fattonyisfat]

What about the incandescent night red heat bulb? Can he sleep with that on at night? Could I use it during the day?

 

[WAFisherman]

My beardie sleeps through anything. At 9pm, he finds a cool spot under the paper towels against the glass bottom and zonks out. Light or no light. My timer goes off around 9:15 and I have no CHE. I do have a CHE for my and UTH for my ball python in the small reptile room. The heat from that keeps the small room warm enough for my beardie and water dragon. So they get a bit a a night temp drop before their MVB's turn back on in the morning.

I do have a red bulb that is on in the room at night, but not directly in any aquarium. Ads some heat for ambient room temps and gives me just enough light to see in there if needed and not turn on the bright lights to disturb the herps. They all sleep nicely.

 

[vickson420]

Topic moved to enclosures

 

[MissT]

Does anyone know for a fact:
1. whether incandescent night red heat bulb can or should be used on my beardie
2. whether I should replace it with ceramic heat emitters.
3. Or should I use something else

Just to try to answer your direct questions.
The red heat bulb will disturb your beardies sleep so for night time heat replace it with a ceramic heat emitter - but only if night time temps drop below 65.
During the day, he/she will need a BRIGHT WHITE basking bulb to simulate natural basking conditions and allow him to recognise exactly where heat can be found. As well as that, bright white light protects their eyes from harmful uv rays so during the day you dont need the red bulb or the CHE - just put in a household flood/spotlight

So basically, it would be best to just ditch the red bulb completely.

Hope this helps.

T