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I have a 6ft AP cage. What is the highest Watt Bulb I can use in there for my snakes without buring their skin? I was told to only use a 50 watt in the vision cages because how close the light was to the ground.

Thank you

Jeff
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0.2 Rotts
1.0 Super Tiger
1.0 Amel Retic
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0.1 Red Tail
0.1 Blood Python
1.0 Green Ananconda
1.0 Emerald Tree Boa

Wattage depends on many things: ambient (background) temps of the room the cage is in, size of cage, size of animal, kind of animal (burm I assume), etc. Personally, I would much rather use a radiant heat panel (like Pro Product's that I use almost exclusively) as it provides a much larger basking surface for large snakes like burms (it also is a gentler heat so that you don't have to worry about overheating the cage). The vision shrouds are set very low but even so, for example, I use a 100 watt power sun for my monitors and they do fine.

>>I have a 6ft AP cage. What is the highest Watt Bulb I can use in there for my snakes without buring their skin? I was told to only use a 50 watt in the vision cages because how close the light was to the ground.
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>>Thank you
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>>Jeff
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>>0.2 Rotts
>>1.0 Super Tiger
>>1.0 Amel Retic
>>0.1 Ball Python
>>0.1 Red Tail
>>0.1 Blood Python
>>1.0 Green Ananconda
>>1.0 Emerald Tree Boa
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL