Larissa132
Member
Whats the best light to keep plants healthy and growing and also won't harm my chameleon, new to the live plants and don't want mine to die!!
Best light for plants?
- Thread starter Larissa132
- Start date
Larissa132
Member
I've got pothos, cordyline, mass crane and a fig plant. If you could drop a link to the lights you recommend, I'd appreciate it!
Larissa132
Member
Larissa132
Member
Just the heat light and the uvb light!
Larissa132
Member
Yeah we pretty much went over everything in a different post. Thank you!Your plants look healthy. Since joining have you ever filled out a husbandry form?
Haley Hendrix
Avid Member
Hey, for the plant light you can search “ Jungle Dawn Arcadia” into google and it will pull up different websites you can purchase them. I get mine from amazon but you can get them from multiple different sites.
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Part of being a herp keeper is learning a bit of botany—which plants are safe, and the needs & care of those individual plants (water, light, food, space, etc.) and their suitability for a particular enclosure.
Knowing the lighting (and other) needs will also help in arranging them more efficiently in the enclosure.
That said, full-spectrum white LEDs are the most efficient plant lights ATM.
Sansi makes excellent LED grow lights—all warrantied for 5 years.
Jungle Dawn AFAIK, are warrantied for 1 year.
There are others as well.
Avoid any that use colored LEDs in combination to produce white light. If some fail/go out, you're left with something that isn't full spectrum anymore. If an all-white light loses a few elements, what's left is still full spectrum.
https://www.sansiled.com/led-grow-light.html (Also available through Amazon, and coupons are available).
https://www.sansiled.com/70w-led-grow-light-full-spectrum.html is used by many here in 24 x 24 x 48 enclosures.
Larissa132
Member
Thank you, I appreciate it!!! Does it need to hover over the cage or can it sit on top? Also are they used the full 12 hours every day as well?
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
If you look at the page, you'll see there are several ways of mounting that light above the enclosure.
Other lights will be different.
Mine are mounted differently still, attached to a wooden frame that sits on top—the weight being transferred to the frame.
Plant/grow lights are the only lights I have on a 12/12 schedule.
Basking lights can be turned off whenever the chameleon stops basking (or if temps rise to or above basking temperatures)
I run UVB from an hour after "lights-on" to and hour before "lights-off", since early morning & late afternoon atmosphere blocks most UVB anyway, and the additional 2 hours can extend the life of a UVB bulb by up to 2 months.
Other lights will be different.
Mine are mounted differently still, attached to a wooden frame that sits on top—the weight being transferred to the frame.
Plant/grow lights are the only lights I have on a 12/12 schedule.
Basking lights can be turned off whenever the chameleon stops basking (or if temps rise to or above basking temperatures)
I run UVB from an hour after "lights-on" to and hour before "lights-off", since early morning & late afternoon atmosphere blocks most UVB anyway, and the additional 2 hours can extend the life of a UVB bulb by up to 2 months.
