Right now I'm using a 100 watt zoomed spot bulb for my bearded dragon's enclosure, and it's on a dimmer so it's usually turned up about 90%. I would think a 45 watt halogen bulb would be hot enough and provide more light, but wouldn't it melt the plastic fixture that's in the tank? The fixture is built in, it's plastic, and it's only rated at 100 watts (I'm now noticing the errors in buying all-in one reptile tanks...I should have built one instead). Since the halogen gets so much hotter, would this cause a problem?



I know I'm going to use a halogen bulb in my uro's tank...once the powersun bulb I payed 50 bucks for dies. Right now, using the overpriced reptile bulbs, I have to use the powersun bulb and another spot bulb on a dimmer to get the right temps. I can't remember how much watts the spot bulb uses, but the powersun alone is 160! And I can't lower the powersun bulb or raise the basking spot without raising the powersun bulb because I just read in the instructions that you can't have it any closer than 12" from the reptile! I'd prefer a nice low wattage halogen bulb accompanied by a reptisun 5.0 anyday.



So if you know anything about the plastic fixture thing, let me know. If it will melt the fixture, are there any other "hardware store bulbs" that would work?



-ryan

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