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nova1990
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gmac
The Scottish Admin
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28/08/2011 : 21:24:59
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nova1990
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/08/2011 : 21:47:21
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Corn Snake - Ayame
Mexican Black Kingsnake - Ryuzaki
Bearded Dragon - Puff
Salmon pink Tarantula - Olivia
Antilles pinktoe Tarantula - MossChops
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Sammysnake
Yearling
United Kingdom
606 Posts |
Posted - 30/08/2011 : 07:52:07
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Are you using a high output UV strip light as well? Not sure this little bulb would have enough UV on it's own. I use a 12% UV strip along the length of the viv and then use a normal household spotlight for heat at the basking spot. As gmac said, you need a dimming stat as you can't use a pulse stat with a bulb.
Beardies get their heat from above so a heatmat is no use to them. If your house is as cold as mine you'll need some type of night time heat too like a ceramic heater or I use an infra red reptile bulb (proper infra red doesn't disturb their sleep patterns) attached to a dimming stat to keep the temps into the 70s farenheit at night. |
08 male Carolina Corn ‘Saracen’
09 male Anery Corn ‘Twilight’
08 male Rankins Dragon ‘Keydo’ |
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nova1990
Yearling
United Kingdom
618 Posts |
Posted - 30/08/2011 : 23:00:42
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| a uv strip light is the next thing ive got to buy. i was actually thinking about using a infra red bulb as i heat source or nights as ive heard horror stories about the ceramic heaters.. sorry im a bit of a fool when it comes to proper set ups. would i need to buy two dimmer stats or just the one as im using a basking lamp aswell or does the infra red bulb work as a basking lamp aswell? |
Corn Snake - Ayame
Mexican Black Kingsnake - Ryuzaki
Bearded Dragon - Puff
Salmon pink Tarantula - Olivia
Antilles pinktoe Tarantula - MossChops
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gmac
The Scottish Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31/08/2011 : 01:53:49
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the infra red would be fine as a basking bulb and heat source and requires a dimmer same as the light.
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nova1990
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United Kingdom
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chrisc
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/09/2011 : 12:53:46
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when i had my 2 beardies they had 10%uv strip lights along the back of the viv 6-8" from the floor with a dimming stat and a reptile heat bulb, never bothered with ir bulbs as the temps never dropped to low at night in my house. are you getting a baby or adult? what substrate are you planning on using?
heres a really good forum i got a load of great advice from when i had the beardies.
http://www.mybeardeddragons.co.uk/ |
1.0.0 baird's rat snake, jeff 1.0.0 royal, derek 1.0.0 royal, frank 0.1.0 dog jenny 1.0.0 bull snake, ivan 0.1.0 bull snake, mavis 0.1.0 chilean rose, Bernadette 1.0.0 hognose, chuck 1.0.0 BCI, william
my youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/pegrocks
facebook(mention the forum) http://www.facebook.com/?sk=nf#!/profile.php?id=623879643
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Kehhlyr
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/09/2011 : 00:08:54
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I use a red reflector bulb, it's about 2 quid from B&Q attached to a dimmer stat.
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nova1990
Yearling
United Kingdom
618 Posts |
Posted - 08/09/2011 : 21:48:07
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| im getting a baby and i was planning on using newpaper till its alittle older.. im thinking im gonna get the infra red light seems like the best idea since my house gets really cold at night.. |
Corn Snake - Ayame
Mexican Black Kingsnake - Ryuzaki
Bearded Dragon - Puff
Salmon pink Tarantula - Olivia
Antilles pinktoe Tarantula - MossChops
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beardie set up help
