Lighting Question

[Ben0918]

i am switching over to ceramic heat emitters for all my reptiles. right now they have spot lamps on them with reptisun 10.0's. is the uv enough light for my beardie? they are not in a dark room so would the natural sun light be fine for the light part?

 

[Claudiusx]

You can not use just a CHE and a uvb bulb.

-Brandon

 

[Ben0918]

ok so just a regular bulb for light?

 

[Taterbug]

CHEs are really only useful for dragons at night or when temperatures are really hard to get high enough.

A bright white light is really what they need. It can be a normal house bulb (incandescent) but remember higher wattage ones make more heat. Not sure compact fluorescent is a good idea as some have unsafe spectra.

They need the bright light near the UVB source. It promotes basking and constricts the pupils to prevent damage to the eyes from the UVB.