I'm looking at buying a tortoise table on ebay, which includes two lights described as:
1x clip on light with daylight bulb
1x clip on light with basking bulb
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What is a daylight bulb? is this the UV bulb? I'm very confused!

I don't know what they mean by daylight bulb as the heat bulb should have light.It isn't the uv and you would need to get u.v.The table is quite small and shallow too.You could make your own a lot bigger for that price.

I think the 'daylight' bulb must refer to the blue bulb... these would normally be used for night time though as the colour doesn't disturb as much.

What you need is a basking bulb (60w - 100w bulb) and a uvb light or a combined basking/uvb bulb. You don't actually need a blue bulb.

You can see the uvb in the pic of my table below (I used an Ikea bed box). The basking light comes from a desk lamp, which I can lower and higher to get the correct temp, which is sat on the table next to the box.



Hope that helps a little

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