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can pacmans and pyxie sense the red light as daylight? I want to be able to regulate the heat at night without affecting their normal activity cycle

thanks in advance

anybody?

Anurans can see in the red spectrum of light. They have a visual absorbtion peat at 580 nm. (for a full explination see Amphibian Biology by Duellman and Trueb.

Ed

thanks for the info, so what would you guys suggest for heat at night?

thanks

Infrared lights should be fine as long as you monitor the temp and the moisture content of the cage.
Its a long topic and would take forever to type it out but intensity can be more important than the color of the light.

Ed .