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Lighting/Enclosures
Is a bright light required over the basking surface?
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[QUOTE="CooperDragon, post: 1898808, member: 76248"] I think of the basking area as what the sunlight is doing when they are out on a rock or post or grape vine. It is bright and intense and hot and they'll sit there exposed for a while (at different times of the day) so the goal is to try and replicate that. I don't know that we have lighting (yet) that can simulate the broad range of wavelengths emitted over those basking areas. They certainly include infrared so including one of the heat projectors could be useful. If the other wavelengths are included somehow then it might be a suitable alternative. I think part of it is a matter of space. We can only afford so much space for lighting equipment in our relatively tiny enclosures. I still hold out hope for metal halide bulbs but haven't seen one with a wide beam yet. Using a combination of LED with a good IR source might work too as you're saying, but I'm not convinced that LED technology is there yet. We can certainly get some visible wavelengths closer to sunlight, but do they produce a consistent spread? There has been some discussion on this in the past, I'll try to dig up the old threads. [/QUOTE]
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