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intensity of light that they would experience Special Thanks
in the wild. For example by turning on just the
basking lamps an hour before any other lights I would like to mention a special thanks to
creates a dawn effect with the much redder Roman Muryn whom without I would not have
light of the halogen lamps. the level of knowledge on this subject that I do
now. It’s an honour to call him a friend.
When you would normally have the hottest and
brightest part of the day in the wild you will I would also like to thank Frances Baines for her
want to have all your lights on. I usually set this inspirational talks on all things relating to UV.
to be between midday and 6pm. The level of understanding I have gained from
listening to these talks a number of times has
If you use digital timers (or even some of the enabled me to better use and adapt the UV in
wireless programmable ones) its really simple my enclosures as well as adapt the enclosures to
and easy to adjust the above times to create provide the different levels of UV.
seasonal changes, shorter or darker days etc.
Resources
There is loads of both good and bad information
out there online and in books. Some of my go
to Facebook groups for all questions relating to
heating and lighting are:
Reptile Lighting:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReptileLighting/
Advancing Herpetological Husbandry:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AdvancingHerpHusbandry/
FIGURE 8 – My main vivarium stack
Also an article well worth reading is ‘How much
UV-B does my reptile need?’ This was written by
As you can see form the image above (figure 4) Frances Bains. You can find a link to it here:
not only are there benefits to your animals but
it can really make your enclosure much more https://bit.ly/2CAIKfQ
visually appealing.
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