hi don't know if anyone could help but I still live at home with my parents who bless em don't ask me for rent but have said that if i'm having tort lights on in my room 14 hours a day they want me to contribute to the elecrtic bill which is fine. I was just wondering how much it actually cost to run a basking light and a UVB tube for that long a day because my dad rang the electric company and the electric as gone up about a fiver a week since this time last year (ive had torts since dec 06) only prob is i don't know if that is for running one set of lights or 2 because at the mo i have 2 sets on the go some days as i am quarenting a tiny baby from my older tort but since the last week or so I have had him outside for the day time. so does anyone know how much it costs to run one set and 2 sets of lights because if I were to get another species that would be another set of lights so it would be nice to know how much i'd be looking at as earlier this year i got a massive loan out to get the car I wanted so I can't go crazy with my money lol.

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5 hermanns (little T, Turbo, Timone, Pumba and Paris)
2 Red foots (Elliot and Tommy)
1 chihuahua (rex)
1 jackrussel/daschund (scrappy)
2 cats (sparky and mieque)
6 glodfish (henry the 2nd, splodge,Bart, Homer,Speckle and ginge)
3 gerbils (timmy, raisin and squirt)
R.I.P Frank & Mr.T (hermanns torts) love you always.

Have a look at this page here, stick in the volatges, wattage and hours used and it will work it out for you.

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thanks for that ive saved that page so i can have a look at it tommorrow as alot of the stuff on there i'm not sure what it is so i'll have to get my mum to give me a hand.

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5 hermanns (little T, Turbo, Timone, Pumba and Paris)
2 Red foots (Elliot and Tommy)
1 chihuahua (rex)
1 jackrussel/daschund (scrappy)
2 cats (sparky and mieque)
6 glodfish (henry the 2nd, splodge,Bart, Homer,Speckle and ginge)
3 gerbils (timmy, raisin and squirt)
R.I.P Frank & Mr.T (hermanns torts) love you always.

I have been told it costs 10p per day to run a combined heat/uvb lamp.

HTH

Tamie

when i was at school i was told it costs about 8p to run a normal light bulb for 10 hours, so its not gona be that much more really

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well the electric company quoted 70p a day and I think that was just running one set of lights.
so it is advised to look into UVB and basking light combined?

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5 hermanns (little T, Turbo, Timone, Pumba and Paris)
2 Red foots (Elliot and Tommy)
1 chihuahua (rex)
1 jackrussel/daschund (scrappy)
2 cats (sparky and mieque)
6 glodfish (henry the 2nd, splodge,Bart, Homer,Speckle and ginge)
3 gerbils (timmy, raisin and squirt)
R.I.P Frank & Mr.T (hermanns torts) love you always.

What company is that and what are you using/do they think your using?

Possibly.

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I have no idea what company it's with, well they think i'm using 70p a day which is fine but if I were to look into getting more it means more lights on the go, don't get me wrong I don't mind paying my mum and dad for the electric I use cos it's only fair, I just want to know how much each set is using so if I do get more I know how much more to give my mum and dad.

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5 hermanns (little T, Turbo, Timone, Pumba and Paris)
2 Red foots (Elliot and Tommy)
1 chihuahua (rex)
1 jackrussel/daschund (scrappy)
2 cats (sparky and mieque)
6 glodfish (henry the 2nd, splodge,Bart, Homer,Speckle and ginge)
3 gerbils (timmy, raisin and squirt)
R.I.P Frank & Mr.T (hermanns torts) love you always.