Required UV tube

[SliK JiM]

All,

I'm currently building my Diego Suarez a new enclosure that is 6' x 4' x 8' (w x d x h) and wondered what people's thoughts were on the UV tube to use...

Given the size and height of the enclosure, I am leaning towards a reptisun 10.0 (as the tube will be across the middle of the top and the basking spot at the front) ensuring the UV on the basking spot isn't too strong. I figure this will also give good penetration into the enclosure and provide good coverage throughout.

What are peoples thoughts?

Thanks

James

 

[Olimpia]

That would be fine, it's what I use and I use the standard 4' x 2' cages. The output isn't outrageous, especially if it's going through screen.

You may want to look into a couple 5000k fluorescent bulbs too if you're keeping plants in there. One or two of these is the only thing keeping my plants nice and alive if I use anything that needs a little more light, like ficus. I recommend those over the 6500k lights, however, that produce a very gray light. These are white but more natural, in my opinion.

 

[SliK JiM]

That would be fine, it's what I use and I use the standard 4' x 2' cages. The output isn't outrageous, especially if it's going through screen.

You may want to look into a couple 5000k fluorescent bulbs too if you're keeping plants in there. One or two of these is the only thing keeping my plants nice and alive if I use anything that needs a little more light, like ficus. I recommend those over the 6500k lights, however, that produce a very gray light. These are white but more natural, in my opinion.

Great, it's what I use for my yemen, but thought it might be over kill for my panther.

I have about 6 good daylight flourescents ready to go in (not all at the same time! Will probably use 3 across the top) as they are great for plant growth. I keep thinking about trying strip LED's around the bottom of the enclosure to stimulate growth lower down in the enclosure... Any thoughts?

 

[Wykd]

position cfl grow lights across the top at angles, this will allow penetration past the top foilage and across the screen at an angle. Except for a small portion of the day plants get all of their light from angles.

 

[SliK JiM]

position cfl grow lights across the top at angles, this will allow penetration past the top foilage and across the screen at an angle. Except for a small portion of the day plants get all of their light from angles.

I don't quite follow what you mean, but I plan to put the bulbs as follows across the top of the enclosure:

Does this look OK/like you meant?