my snakes are in my room and i wanna get a black light or two...or just get 2 of the light bulbs and put them in...would this bug the snakes at night if i was to have it on? or would they not even notice and still move around and stuff? because it is a colored light but im not sure if it would bug them or not?
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chuck420
Jul 11, 2004 12:35 PM
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janome
Jul 11, 2004 02:49 PM
I have a jungle carpet python and have a red light on her at night to help keep the temp up. I have seen her out and about with the red light on. She has even set up on the top of her branch near the lid where the light is. I don't know how a snake would react if they have never had a light though. I don't have night lights on my corns or milk. Just my python.
crtoon83
Jul 12, 2004 03:34 PM
Snakes and other reptiles can not see the red spectrum of light, it's too low for them to see. I actually had a blacklight on my black rat for a while at night, before I got a red light. It didn't seem to bother her that much, but I wouldn't do it again.
How close to the tank are your blacklights going to be?
and a regular incandescant screw in bulb will NOT give you a true "blacklight"...i.e. the one that makes white shirts glow purple. you HAVE to get a flourescent for that, because you are looking at a totally different type of gas going through that.
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