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I plan on getting one of these for my collards. She lives in a 65 gallon reptarium. Im not sure what size bulb to get. They come in 100 and 160 watt bulbs. Should I get a flood or a spot bulb. I would hate to spend 50 bucks and then not have a hot enough bulb.

Yeah, so darn expensive to have this happen, so soon. Now I have to send it back, and WAIT to see if ZooMed will replace the darn thing.

Ask Big Donnie, what he got, he was telling me he got a new MVB he was Extremely pleased with. Maybe he can shed some LIGHT (get it, hehehhe ) on it for us.
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Eve / PHEve

It depends on a lot of things....
Would this be your ONLY heat source?
Are you able to have a basking site within 12 inches of the light itself?
You will need to provide a temp gradient that would allow for a HOT basking site up to 110f or so, and a cooler zone with ambient temps of 75-80f ish.
If you NEED heat go with a 160 flood (I use zoomed)
I have had one burn out and Collin at Zoomed replaced it with no questions asked! 1-805-542-9988
They do not SELL to the public so I am not endorsing them as a vendor.
I will say that I have found this bulb online for $32 !

As Tony sayd,it depends of more then one things.
Specialy the height of your reptarium will do.
I have make my reptariums (6x) of wood so it is a lot more isolated.
But still I'm using 160 powersun.
This reptariums are (in cm) 130x60x50. (So 91 gallon if I'm right).
I have also a reptarium of 250x60x60 (211 gallon).
There I use 2x powersun 160 watt.
I think because you have a reptarium of glass (100x50x50 cm ??)
you wil need a 160 watt powersun.
But your reptarium have to stay free. If you convert him, maybe its better to use a 100 watt powersun and when necessarily (depends of the temp) a second heatspot.

Greetings Peter.

p.s in Holland they give 1 year garanty on the Powersuns
if you buy them in a petshop. Only the price is high because of the shipping
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Peter Bloemberg
(The Dutchman)
Dutch collareds site