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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:39 pm    Post subject: A question of lighting Reply with quote
A quick question for the more experienced out there regarding lighting for my baby Hermann's tortoise Timmy.

He has a Repti Glo 5.0 UVB tube light which the box says supplies 30% UVA and 5% UVB, this as far as I am aware should take care of his UV requirements.
My question regards his basking lamp, I am using an ordinary 60 watt spotlight at one end of his habitat giving him a basking area, I was wondering if this spotlight is ample or if he requires something more specialist.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
As long as he is getting the uva and uvb from the tube then I wouldn't have thought it mattered what typ of bulb you used for his heating.
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