UV bulb Question

[cricket-killer]

Hi there, does anybody have feedback on using an energy saving light bulb in a viv.. i'd like to know if they produce reptile friendly UV light or not? The bulb in mind is a 100W 1100 lumen "4 loop" type bulb.

The reason i am asking this is i currently have a BTS without a UV setup. Im using a basking lamp along with a heat mat and supplementing vitimin powder into his diet, but want to know if using the above bulb would help- if it did produce the UV light.

Many thanks!

[rob2278]

Originally Posted by cricket-killer

Hi there, does anybody have feedback on using an energy saving light bulb in a viv.. i'd like to know if they produce reptile friendly UV light or not? The bulb in mind is a 100W 1100 lumen "4 loop" type bulb.

The reason i am asking this is i currently have a BTS without a UV setup. Im using a basking lamp along with a heat mat and supplementing vitimin powder into his diet, but want to know if using the above bulb would help- if it did produce the UV light.

Many thanks!

The lamp you are asking about, I presume it is a standard house hold energy saving lamp. If it is, these do not give out the necessary UV requirements for reptile use. The reason for this is down the the chemical content and the coating of the lamp, ie a sodium filled lamp emitts an orange light, where as a mercury filled lamp emitts a white light (as a standard energy saving lamp does) You will be better off purchasing a specialised reptile lamp that has the specific gas & coating to emitt the necessary UV required.

[DeanThorpe]

you should be using a proper form of uv... such as a uv tube...
wherever you got your bts, viv and heatmat from would no doubt sell them...