What UV lights are you using?

[bulldogod]

What sort of lights are people using for there lizards? Had to buy one today and all they had was Arcadia 15w, 6% uvb,$65. Had mercury vapor lamp before that and was great but dont know if you can buy them here? Can anyone get them?

[rockwork]

hae we can get them down here if you want us to get one for you, but we foud that they dont last that long.

we use a 5% and a 8% repti glow fluro bulb and we also have a sun glow for back up.(its in the turtle tank at the mo)

we can get them all down here at resonable price.

[spoon]

i remember reading a post i cant find now about some type of sylvania tube you can get that has certain percentages of UV light , from a lighting wholesaler and possibly a whole lot cheaper than prpoer 1s

[Insect Direct]

i was gonna ask the same thing a couple weeks back, always interesting to know whats been used and available here :lol:

ive only had one mercury vapour bulb and it was awesome..........for a few hours then she burnt out :evil: not cool @ $50+each.

There are a couple of brands overseas that are suppose to be more reliable but untill someone starts bringing them in and at an affordable price ill stick to fluros

i use the sylvania reptistar from electrical shop which spoon mentioned above

for memory theyre 20-30 each but prices vary. I think theyre 5/6% uv output but not sure i also take dragons outside for abit of sun when the weathers good.

also read of people using gro-lux (ppl use them for tomatoes :roll: ) tubes but not sure how effective they would be for reptiles in all honesty