Hmmmmmm I have no problem. hahahahahaha
You already know what your going to do, SO DO IT. You already know the basic parameters, so do it. If your asking just go be part of the gang, there are a million other things to ask about.
You indicate I recomend the cheapest. Far from it. My only responsibility is to offer what works. If the cheapest works, you now have a choice from across the board.
You ask as if your going to actually do whats said. I feel that is wrong. Your going to do what your going to do. And my feeling is, you should. So do it.
Of course I have mentioned this before, JUST DO IT. If you have problems with your predetermined approach, then we can fix it later. Just do it.
In all reality, all of us old timers understand, the experience with your snake species, DOES NOT APPLY. Monitors are far easier. You actually can treat them like mammals. They will do it themselves if givin a marginal oppertunity.
CONSIDER, Only you have your conditions, so only you can solve them, to ask if your lites and lexan will work is silly. WORK FOR WHAT? You do not say what its suppose to work for. I would hope you buy them in functioning order, if you did, they will work. Hit the switch and lite comes out. After that, its how you use them that is meaningful.
I sort of have a hard time with you, as your smart, or possible only act smart. You should know that its how you use the tools, not the tools themselves. About MH bulbs, vs. Halogen and incandesent. My suggestions are all about availability. I want something I can replace in a HURRY and easily. Considering they ALL will work, I want something I can send the lowest rung on the ladder to get and get it anywhere. Most of the time that person is me.
Practical application is what comes to my mind. For instance are you installing one or two MH lites per cage. I ask this, what happens if one fails? what effect on the cage is there? Now compare that too using a bank of halogen or incandesent floods. If you have a bank of five bulbs, if one fails(all lites will fail) it has no realtime effect on the cage as a whole.
Level two of practical application. What happens if your power fails? compare the effect on MH bulbs vs. halogen and incandesent bulbs. I really do not know how surges and outages effect MH bulbs and I have forgotten if they require a starter. Hmmmmmmmmmm starting to get complicated hey.
Those cheap bulbs are not so complicated, and not hard to find, and not hard to replace the whole quissmo if needed. God I love being practical.
You know when I announce that I have had varanus eggs incubating since 91. Most take that as bragging about me or monitors. Nope, its bragging about a practical design that has not failed in that lenght of time.
You know when I recomend troughts, its not cause I am in cahoots with the trough makers. Its because I set up trough stype cages in 91 and are still functioning now with NO MODIFICATIONS.
What I find important is not the cost but the availibility. What I find important is maintainance, not does it work. Heck, I can make a candle work. But it would be a lot of work.
I want tools and designs that allow me to WORK on the animals and not the cages.
I do not know you, you may simply point and have someone else do it. Thats why I cannot help you. I do not know anything about you. You do not talk about those things.
You only talk about things extraneous to keeping monitors. Toids and pulses and other such.
That fella in Maimi that just hatched lacies, I told him he would be the best varanid breeder. The reason was simple, the quality of his questions and the timing of his questions. He was spot on as to what is important. My guess is, Chun could breed anything anywhere with any tool. The reason is, he learned what is needed and applies it. Its not the tools that is important. Tools should be like a NY taxi, just catch the next one.
You on the otherhand are either past that or WAY BELOW THAT. hahahahahahahahaha because your questions are extraneous and sir, do not take offense, that is commonplace.
Most that fail, do so because they are concerned with the wrong things. Most that fail spend their time and energy working on stuff that doesn't matter. It wears them out and their charges fail. So if I could help you at all it would be to direct you to WHAT IS IMPORTANT, not talk about all kind of goofy stuff(the extraneous)(thats my word of the day)
Lastly about your tropical ratsnakes. Your missing the boat. the difference is not the lite, but their own learning. Reptiles are quick learns, their life depends on it. Wild caught reptiles are prejudiced to certain conditions and their life depends upon it. Captives have all that taken care of, so they do not have to respond the same way. They condition to what is of value in captivity. Vs. wildcaughts that respond to what THEY HAVE ALREADY LEARNED. Wild caughts know real lite as lite. Captives do not(yet) You simply gave the wrong reason for what they do. They know a lite buld is not the sun. I never fell for that either. hahahahahahaha so many thing a lite bulb can be the sun. hahahahahahahaha that makes me laugh.
Its sad to see folks are so jaded they cannot breed ratsnakes. As they are very easy, get them out of a shoebox and give them some temp choices and all is well. You know, like a lizard. Enough, later, cheers
