Grow Bulb???
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trdlabs
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Thanks
Digby Rigby
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No
Plant bulbs are high in blue and red spectrum but not in UV light. Plants utilize all colors in the visible spectrum except green. By basking I take it you mean UV lighting also. If that is the case then no you can not use it if you want to supply appropriate lighting including UV. Some of the new metal halide uv bulbs are wonderful and more efficient than mercury vapor I prefer external ballsted to self ballasted.
Digby Rigby _______________________
Plant bulbs are high in blue and red spectrum but not in UV light. Plants utilize all colors in the visible spectrum except green. By basking I take it you mean UV lighting also. If that is the case then no you can not use it if you want to supply appropriate lighting including UV. Some of the new metal halide uv bulbs are wonderful and more efficient than mercury vapor I prefer external ballsted to self ballasted.
Digby Rigby _______________________
justjumpit621
New Member
A basking bulb and a UVB light are two different things. I'm pretty sure they mean as the heat source. A UVB bulb isn't much of a heat source.
Todnedo
Avid Member
Can you use a grow bulb for a basking bulb? That way i kill to birds with one stone.
If you mean providing a good spectrum for the plants and a heat source for basking yes a grow bulb will work.
summoner12
Avid Member
If you want to grow plant provide heat AND provide UVB, you need two fixtures and three lights.....
Buy a dual linear fluorescent fixture and a screw in clip light. Put a normal household incandescent bulb into the screw in style fixture. Then buy a UVB lamp from zoo med (5.0) and then get a 6500K color temp lamp of the same size of the UVB.
It'll be less wattage I think.
Buy a dual linear fluorescent fixture and a screw in clip light. Put a normal household incandescent bulb into the screw in style fixture. Then buy a UVB lamp from zoo med (5.0) and then get a 6500K color temp lamp of the same size of the UVB.
It'll be less wattage I think.
trdlabs
New Member
It's just a plant / basking light. I have a 5.0 uvb / uva light. Thanks
