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I'm currently running a uvb 5.0 full spectrum 18" for my young vieled cham, I found one of my esu lights it's like a 15" i think u can pick them up at most petmarts it's got small output like 3%uva 7%uvb or somethin anways i'm curious about using both of these lights 2gether or is it to much lighting? oh and what are the vitalife lights should i swap out that light w/ a vitalite or whatever it is ? also in this chameleon package i got they gave me a 150watt starts with an "N" wierd bulb should i use that or lower the watts to like a 75watt ?

The "weird" bulb is just a fancy basking bulb. You don't really have to use it. An ordinary house light bulb will work for basking. But, rather than tell you what wattage you need, you should always test the basking temp by putting a thermometer right at the basking perch and measure the resulting temp. If it is too hot you can reduce the watts or move the light farther from the cage top. You could use the UV bulbs together...they are not that strong and if your ESU bulb is very old it won't emit much UV anyway. UVB bulbs tend to drop off in UV production after about 6 months. VitaLites are not overly strong either so you could safely use one along with the ReptiSun 5.0.