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Originally Posted by infernalis
Oh well, no interest in fish..
Monitor bites are junk.
UV not needed
a Mercury vapour lamp will way overheat a cage of thw dimensions you described.
simple halogen flood lights like they sell at Wal Mart.
Standard practice is to hang lights like mine are, example below.
Reason being, Monitors will fiddle with the lights no matter what you do, and a bulb guard gives them something to get hold of, so you want to omit any hoods, guards or cages around the bulb.
This way, when the lizard attempts to mess with it, the bulb just swings out of the way.
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I am disappointed about the fish, I'll maybe try them again later. And the monitor bites were really more because he was so disinterested in food on day one I was trying to just get him to eat something. But I of course read the ingredient list before I even bought them and knew they weren't too good.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Will the halogen lights need ceramic fixtures still? Or can I just use regular plastic ones? The reason I ask is because I have a bunch of old plastic fixtures lying around that are probably just going to be donated if I can't figure out a use for them. This of course is going to
be for the final adult enclosure build, because I'm going to try and really pile that substrate up in the 8x2x2 to give him more room to burrow. It will be banked up on the hot side a little more, and the lights will be actually outside of the tank on top of the plexiglass with holes in it just big enough for the lights. Does this make sense? If I bank up the substrate to 18 inches then there wouldn't be enough clearance to hang the light safely in the 6 inches left. But if it was above on the plexiglass it would be safely out of reach and it would clear up that space. Or am I thinking too much into this and should just have a base of only 12 inches all the way across? Just trying to do the best I can for this guy with what I have.
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