I'm looking for a recommended 24" fixture to go on top of a Dragon Strand Large Breeder cage. It looks like LYR is out of stock of pretty much everything 24".
Suggestions? Newb here so I'm a bit reticent to buy an aquarium or plant light. 24" x 4 6500K plus UVB safely (no out of band please) is what I want I think. Too bad LYR isn't ready to sell right now...
TIA
I'm with you on buying a name brand. I highly recommend the Arcadia lights.
I'm replacing all my lighting with Arcadia lights. I have 4 chamelons under them now. Previously I had a similar light to the Arcadia quad, but made my ZooMed. I think the price of the Arcadia and the ZooMed was about the same.
The difference between the two is incredible.
This is all anecdotal experience, but everyone perked up under the new lights. Granted, the brand new ZooMeds (oldest would be about 6 or 7 weeks old) were not producing much UVB.
My male veiled was not gaining as much as I thought he should. He didn't move around in his cage much and was not a very pretty color. He wasn't a very aggressive eater and I never saw him hunting, but he was gaining weight slowly.
I turned on his Arcadia quad and he immediately started moving around the cage. I hand fed him something like 10 silkworms and he was aggressive about eating, which was new. His color is nicer, more blue green rather than dull brown green. He just looks more vital.
Yesterday I got my second bank lights and put them up over a couple of wild caught quads that were imported mid December. One has a hurt leg that no one has been able to diagnose because the quality of the x-ray is poor. One suggestion was MBD. He wasn't very active but I attributed that to his hurt leg. I received a light meter and measured his UVB of his old lights and found he was getting none, which was a shock. He had been looking really good and then as soon as I posted some pictures of him looking good, he started to look not so good. Yesterday he developed black spots so he was checked out by the vet. The vet blames all his woes on his lousy lighting--bacterial skin infection, hurt leg is probably MBD, and even the slight gular edema.
So, he got his new lights this morning and the first thing I notice is that he starts moving around the cage vertically, which was new.
I wish I had bought Arcadia lights to begin with. After my experience with the other bulbs, I also think maybe everyone should have a light meter. My bulbs were new, not even 2 months. I'm going to have to check them very carefully before I get in touch with ZooMed--I might not be doing it right. In the mean time, I will buy some new bulbs to just to be safe.
