New owner - cage questions (pics)

[AdamAMD]

Hi everyone! Been lurking around here for a couple months now. I just upgraded to a 40g glass enclosure from petsmart and ordered a ton of stuff from petmountain and after 250$ spent I have a few questions about the lighting. I've read literally every single thread from the first 10 pages of this subforum.. and I think I have my stuff set up correctly.

On the back is a Reptisun 10.0 UVB 36 inch in a Reptisun 10.0 Terrarium Hood. On the left is a ZooMed Dual Light fixture.. which contains the 100W Zoomed basking bulb and another 60w Household bulb I put in until I can get to home depot and get a 5000-6500k one like the forums suggest. Directly under that combo is his little bonsai tree, some stick I found that *HE LOVES*, and some rocks.
Over on the right is another household light because it was kind of dark over there. Directly under that bulb is his food/water bowls and some log which he never touches.

On the ground is some rubbery-meshy stuff that I had laying around the house. I plan on finding some slate tile as soon as someone posts some on craigslist =)

Is this a pretty good start?

 

[Mrs. Tiggywinkle]

Looks nice and I have no advice but I would love to know where you got that hammock thing? It is exactly what I need.

 

[ridgetail]

Looks nice and I have no advice but I would love to know where you got that hammock thing? It is exactly what I need.

I have no idea where it's from....but it almost looks very much like the rubber lining people use to line the inside of their cabinets/kitchen drawers. Has a bit of a grip to it? Maybe some of that and regular suction cups and you've got a hammock!?

 

[Denduran87]

Looks nice and I have no advice but I would love to know where you got that hammock thing? It is exactly what I need.

I have no idea where it's from....but it almost looks very much like the rubber lining people use to line the inside of their cabinets/kitchen drawers. Has a bit of a grip to it? Maybe some of that and regular suction cups and you've got a hammock!?

It looks like bandage wrap stuff. :lol:

 

[AdamAMD]

Looks nice and I have no advice but I would love to know where you got that hammock thing? It is exactly what I need.

I have no idea where it's from....but it almost looks very much like the rubber lining people use to line the inside of their cabinets/kitchen drawers. Has a bit of a grip to it? Maybe some of that and regular suction cups and you've got a hammock!?

This is exactly what it is.

 

[BadCon]

Looking good! Only question I have is if the secondary light you have on the right side of the viv (in pictures) is a fluorescent or an incandescent? I ask, because having a heat emitting light over there would make achieving a desirable temperature gradient difficult. Otherwise, your setup looks fantastic!

 

[FBradshaw]

One other thing you may want to do is put your UVB lamp under the screen or cut a slot in it to allow the UVB to make it through. Screen mesh, depending on the size pf the mesh, can filter out anywhere between 50% to 95% of UVB.

 

[BadCon]

One other thing you may want to do is put your UVB lamp under the screen or cut a slot in it to allow the UVB to make it through. Screen mesh, depending on the size pf the mesh, can filter out anywhere between 50% to 95% of UVB.

Sorry, but that's a serious overestimate. Depending on the size of the mesh, a screen will filter out roughly 15-40% of the UVB.