Hi all!
I'm the proud owner of 2 beautiful T's (B.smithi and L.klugi) and looking forward to expanding my collection in the future. In my previous home I wasn't allowed to keep pets (student housing) but I did anyway. Because I wasn't allowed my T's lived in an enclosure which resided in a specially manufactured closet which was locked most of the time. Now, finally, I can have them out in the open so I can see them a little more. The terrariums don't have any lighting build in but I would like them to be a little more visible. I've tried a small LED strip but especially my B.smithi seems to hate the light. I guess its a little to bright because it starts pacing and trying to escape its enclosure (actually biting the glass). This frantic behaviour ceases immediatly when I turn of the light. Now I know you're thinking, "how do you know the smithi dislikes the light and not the substrate or whatever." I use coco fibre and a little peat moss and it has a shelter which it uses most of the time so that shouldn't be the problem. Now for the question; what kind of light is known to make the T's a little more visible but doesn't get them pissed off. I don't want to use big light bulbs because they're just painfully ugly to look at in my opinion.
So please, any suggestion?
Gr. Vince
I'm the proud owner of 2 beautiful T's (B.smithi and L.klugi) and looking forward to expanding my collection in the future. In my previous home I wasn't allowed to keep pets (student housing) but I did anyway. Because I wasn't allowed my T's lived in an enclosure which resided in a specially manufactured closet which was locked most of the time. Now, finally, I can have them out in the open so I can see them a little more. The terrariums don't have any lighting build in but I would like them to be a little more visible. I've tried a small LED strip but especially my B.smithi seems to hate the light. I guess its a little to bright because it starts pacing and trying to escape its enclosure (actually biting the glass). This frantic behaviour ceases immediatly when I turn of the light. Now I know you're thinking, "how do you know the smithi dislikes the light and not the substrate or whatever." I use coco fibre and a little peat moss and it has a shelter which it uses most of the time so that shouldn't be the problem. Now for the question; what kind of light is known to make the T's a little more visible but doesn't get them pissed off. I don't want to use big light bulbs because they're just painfully ugly to look at in my opinion.
So please, any suggestion?
Gr. Vince