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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: My New Pet
Ben reading site alot, tons of great information finally decided to tell you guys about my tegu, i got him as a hatchling at a local exotic pet store, the person at the counter tried to tell me they had no personality and you has to work with them alot, boy was she wrong they have tons of pesonality, i hold him daily when hes out and about i never take him out of his hide, he eats like a garbage disposal, Ben feeding him, Pinkies, Crickets that i coat in product called " jurassi Cal" just a calcium supplement, he also loves bananas, next week i will offering him some ground turkey and see how that goes, i currently use 2 lights for him one for day light and he has a black phosphors incandescent light for night, keeps his tank at about 82 degrees i will try to post some pictures of "NugNug" tomorrow
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ya hes a BW, amazing how mellow he is almost like a cat lol ya he has 3 types of lights, the night light, whited basking as well as a 150w red light really brings out his colors
Joined: Mar 25, 2005 Posts: 1354 Location: Denver, CO
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:52 am Post subject:
Aniko wrote:
ya hes a BW, amazing how mellow he is almost like a cat lol ya he has 3 types of lights, the night light, whited basking as well as a 150w red light really brings out his colors
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Red light used over his basking area, keeps humid high at about 92 degrees, white light is on other side of his cage around 79-82 degrees, and i turn both off at night and have the 2 150w, Incadecent lights witch temp out to about 80 degrees at night
Sorry to disappoint, but Im willing to bet none of those are UVB bulbs. Teiidae is right; the nightlight and the redlight wont produce any UVB (why would there be UVB at night?). The white light I dont know about; if you can show us a link to it online we can comment further.
I would be very interested to see that; as I stated before, a night light shouldnt be producing UVB, so if thats what its being marketted as then it shouldnt have a UVB output. Red lights also dont produce UV. Youre right though, that coil will produce UVB.
Joined: Mar 25, 2005 Posts: 1354 Location: Denver, CO
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject:
I believe he is talking about the "package colors" - The lights themselves are all white - The 20 watt 3% uvb he posted the link to as well as the 13 watt 3%
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ya he has 3 types of lights, the night light, whited basking as well as a 150w red light really brings out his colors
