New to scorpions
- Thread starter Rmcm2424
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it's a regular blue basking bulb. i think 30-50 watts. it's a very light basking bulb. i'm not sure if it gives off uv light. but thats the lowest u can go if u want a heat bulb to fit in that clamp lamp. i had some blue bulbs layin around for my chameleons but they're gone. i would've posted a pic for u.
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When I need heating, I buy cheap normal bulbs, 20 or 40watts, nothing more. They are like $1 for 2. They do the job very well, no need to buy expensive petshops bulbs, they break as easily as normal ones and are sold 5 times the price of normal ones.
Rmcm2424, you should check out the temp with another thermometer, because a 75watts bulb in summer is pretty high unless you live in Antartica lol. I wouldn't even use that in winter.. And where do you put the bulb? Close to the tank or like 2 feet higher?
Frank
Rmcm2424, you should check out the temp with another thermometer, because a 75watts bulb in summer is pretty high unless you live in Antartica lol. I wouldn't even use that in winter.. And where do you put the bulb? Close to the tank or like 2 feet higher?
Frank
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The thermometer seems to work fine it goes down when I take the lamp off and it goes to the room temp. It stays around 80 when the 75 watt was on it. The lamp is on top of the tank on the screen cover. It gets hot right around the lamp but it doesn't really seem that hot in the cage. It dried out the mulch underneath it pretty quickly though. I just went and bought a new red bulb for it and the smallest I could get was 50 watts. It will probably bake the scorp. I've had it on for a few minutes and I'm going to go check the temp again in a sec. I wanted a bulb that I could use to see him at night instead of a regular old bulb, but I may just go get one at wal-mart or something and use the white light. I think the black light didn't get as warm b/c it wasn't a bright light it just gave off some radiant heat from the bulb and because the bulb is like a foot or so from the bottom of the tank it didn't radiate that much heat to the bottom. Maybe? I don't know.