Lighting

[SkweeTheSquid]

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Hello I'm brand new to the fourm and in the next few months, am hoping to have a bearded dragon of my own. I resieved some bearded dragon equipment from a friend for a bearded dragon but I have some questions about it.
I received 2 lights, one was a 100 watt Infared Basking Light and the other was a 100 watt Daylight Basking Light....do I need both? The Daylight one is actually broken so it would need to be replaced...
Also neither say they provide UVA/UVB lighting EXCEPT on the bulb of the Daylight it says 10.0 UVB
I have 1 of those round lamps for the basking light and I have another light holder that can hold a bulb on either side of it with a split in the middle (not just like 1 long light, would need 2 separte bulbs). Is this where I would need to buy and put in the UVB/UVA bulbs?

Sorry for all the questions I'm new and did as much research as I could but now I need more professional/direct opinions and knowledge

 

[Cmane419]

U will forsure need a uvb alot of people recommend the reptisun 10.0 I use a basking light aswell. Then at night I switch to the night time heat bulb.

 

[SkweeTheSquid]

Do I need UVB/A for them at night? Or just heat?

 

[Cmane419]

Unless ur house is going to go under 65 neither. I just use heat as a precaution.

 

[Cmane419]

Uvb should only be on for 12 hours a day.kinda like if the sun were coming up and going down.

 

[Gormagon]

Those red bulbs are useless, they disturb their sleep patterns. No heat source is needed at night unless your house temps drop below 65° overnight and, at that point you will need a ceramic heat emitter. They like it to be cool and dark when they sleep. This allows their metabolism to slow down so they can rest.
The basking and uvb lights should be kept on 12 to 15 hrs a day and, be over the basking area (basking area should be at one end) to supply heat and uvb and allow for good tempeture gradients throughout the enclosure ( basking spot: 100 to 105, warm end: 90 to 95, cool end: 75 to 82). Warm end is under the basking area.
The uvb light used by most on here is either, the Arcadia 12% or the reptisun 10.0 t5 HO, these are both great lights.

 

[diamc]

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