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It's a 60 watt zoomed ceramic infrared heat emitter and i just lost the rep that i was giving it to so I was wondering if I could use it for my Iguana?
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Savannah Monitor - Artimus
Emerald Swift - Jesus
Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
Green Iguana - King Arthur
Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
Basilisk - Adam Used to be Adam and Eve but there was a food competition because my girlfriend was taking care of them and she didn't know what was wrong until it was too late.

Yeah you can use them. I have a ZooMed one too, 100 watts, and it gets very hott. i use it as a 24 hr heat source and really like it. Just make sure your ig can't toch it or the fixture that its in. Also make sure the socket is ceramic, because the base gets hot and can melt a regular plastic one.

Mark

Mine's a 60 watt, He didn't seem to care for it that much... I think i'm going to get him a bigger cage so he can have more room to walk around, i have him in a open-air cage, the measurments are 20x18x12. I'll build him a custom one, bigger, this weekend.
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Savannah Monitor - Artimus
Emerald Swift - Jesus
Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
Green Iguana - King Arthur
Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
Basilisk - Adam Used to be Adam and Eve but there was a food competition because my girlfriend was taking care of them and she didn't know what was wrong until it was too late.

yes, I think they're better than most lights on the market...

mostly because you can keep it on all day and night without disrupting their sleep cycles (and convieniently without disrupting yours... I don't know about you guys, but the creepy red glow from infared bulbs keeps me up at night)

My suggestion for what it's worth: purchase one of those dimmer switches and install it into your lamp hood that you're using (if you don't know how to safely do that...then don't... ask someone who knows how to...it involves stripping the wires on your hood) Then you can adjust the temperature of the cage easily depending on the time of day/season... right now in winter, hers is on full blast, but in the summer, it's rarely ever on.

I also pair hers with a basking light right next to it, just for a little added heat to her basking area.
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Alexandria Neonakis
Owner of:
0.1 Green Ig: Olivia
0.1 Flourescent Orange Cornsnake: Maize
1.0 Silver Ghost Queen Cornsnake: Onyx
1.0 Leopard Gecko: Peter Griffin
1.0 Ball Python: Darwin
1.1 Cats: Jasper and Pumpkin
1.0 Dog: Ripley (Yellow Lab)
1.0 Hamster: Hammy Time Station (don't ask...)

That's what i did, i'm not going to try what you suggest, cause i don't know how. heh.. I put it right next to the basking light and he absolutely loves it. He sleeps by it, and it doesn't keep me up at night. I can't sleep with any light, i have to cover up my computer lights at night it's so bad, lol.
King Arthur tends to sleep on the ground at night I guess he likes the way his ground feels. I've been trying to feed him apples and oranges but he isn't eating them, i think it's because i've just now started putting them back in his diet. I hope he gets used to them, i love to watch him eat.
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Savannah Monitor - Artimus
Emerald Swift - Jesus
Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
Green Iguana - King Arthur
Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
Basilisk - Adam Used to be Adam and Eve but there was a food competition because my girlfriend was taking care of them and she didn't know what was wrong until it was too late.

I love the idea of the dimmer swith. Not to hard to do and makes perfect sence. I had not thought of that.

THANKS
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Mike
0.0.1 Green Iguana
0.0.1 Pac Man Frog
0.2.0 Albino African Clawed Frog
1.0.0 BIG Golden Retriever 105 lbs