compact mirror Thinking about reptile care #2 Lighting

Thinking about reptile care, Lighting.


In this second installment of my reptile care series I wanted to talk about another very general topic. Lighting for your reptiles. There are a lot of different ways to light a terrarium and probably even more opinions on what is right and wrong. So remember in this video I'm sharing my personal views on the topic that I have formulated over a long time and a lot of research. If you have not seen the first video in this care series I suggest you go watch that one as well. In that video I talk about doing research into how to care for reptiles. There are many sources of information out there and I share my views on how to decide what info to use and what info you should ignore. There is a link in the description to that video.

We use lighting for a couple different reasons in our terrariums and reptile enclosures. From what I can tell many people believe we use lights for a basking spot, so our reptiles have a warm place to go and heat up to their desired temperature, but I have to say that is secondary to the real reason we keep lights over most reptiles. Most reptiles need UVA and/or UVB to properly metabolize nutrients and to digest food. Because of these couple uses, which are both very important we have a number of different lighting types to choose from. But before I list the specific lights I'm going to tell you about 3 types of animals.

First are Diurnal animals like bearded dragons, we are the most familiar with diurnal animals because we are diurnal. Di standing for 2 meaning these animals are active during the day and sleep at night. Diurnal reptiles being active during the day absorb heat and UV rays by basking in the light of the sun. That means these animals will require radiant heat coming down from above them as well as a source of UVB lighting. UV light facilitates the production of vitamin D3 in the skin of reptiles and allows them to metabolize calcium, and we all know the importance of having enough calcium for our reptiles. Next up I am going to lump two categories into one they are nocturnal and crepuscular reptiles, nocturnal animals are active at night and crepuscular animals tend to be most active at dusk and dawn. I only lump these together because these animals no matter the situation can expose themselves to low levels of light at the early and late hours of the day. For this reason these animals do not need any special lights in their terrariums but we also don't want them to spend all their time in the dark as they need to know when its day or night. So me personally I like having a very well light reptile room during the day, the best when possible would be to have a window that lets natural sunlight in the room. Even so these animals, which live at night, do eat food items like insects that do get energy from the day or from eating plants that grow in the sun. So for instance with leopard geckos many people don't believe they need D3 at all but who are we to say they never consume any in the wild or at the least expose themselves to small amounts of sun occasionally. So we should be making sure their diet makes up for any short comings of our lighting methods. But these animals certainly don't need a bright basking light to heat their terrarium which would cause more stress than benefit.




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