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Hey how long does an Iguana have to be under a UVB light per day? just wondering....

- Nicole

About 10 - 12 hours. I would leave the light on all day and turn it off at night. In the summertime, you can just let the ig soak up some rays outside.
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Sir Iggy ( 1.0.0 El Salvador Blue Iguana), Ryo-ohki, Orion, Bud, & Finnegan (3.1.0 crazy kitties), Rosebud (0.1.0 cockerspaniel), and Kayko (0.0.1 leopard gecko)

I keep mine under UVB as long as I have his basking light on. He seems to be basking more that I've put it up there, dunno why.
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1.0 Savannah Monitor - Artimus
2.0 Emerald Swift - Jesus, unnamed
1.0 Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
1.0 Green Iguana - King Arthur
1.0 Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
1.0 Basilisk - Adam
0.1 Water Dragon - Lady

Well, I have noticed a huge difference in my iguanas behaviour since i have been handleing him more. he is very calm. i have the basking light and the uvb light side by side and he sits about 3-5 inches away from them under a screened top..

nicole

I turn the light on for my iguana at like 3 in the afternoon because thats when i get home and i leave it on until about 11-12 o' clock at night. And he is out of his cage for about 1-2 hours a days sometimes like 30 minutes.. But usually more. That is okay right? just checking.. he is a juvi iggy too..

nicole

You might want to leave it on a little longer than that if you can. Like set the UVB on a timer. For a juvenile, I would turn the UVB on in the morning and leave it on until nighttime. Basking lights are a different thing, because they have to be monitored. Those can be left on during the day just as long as the temp doesn't go over 95. Some people have said that it can go up to 98, but when my iguana was a juvie, he never wanted to stay in his cage when it got that hot.
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~*Chibi*~
Sir Iggy ( 1.0.0 El Salvador Blue Iguana), Ryo-ohki, Orion, Bud, & Finnegan (3.1.0 crazy kitties), Rosebud (0.1.0 cockerspaniel), and Kayko (0.0.1 leopard gecko)

What I do is turn my UVB and basking light on when I get up in the morning and ready for class, i keep my infrared on 24/7. I make sure it doesn't have anything in the way and it's about 5 inches away from the top of the cage so it's not going to burn anything or anything. I turn mine off around 7pm-9pm. Depending on how long the daylight is. I do this for all my animals, They all have basking/UVB. Some don't need it but it won't harm them so I do it anyways. I make sure everyday they have at LEAST 12 hours of basking/UVB.
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1.0 Savannah Monitor - Artimus
2.0 Emerald Swift - Jesus, unnamed
1.0 Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
1.0 Green Iguana - King Arthur
1.0 Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
1.0 Basilisk - Adam
0.1 Water Dragon - Lady

With my gecko, all he needs is a basking lamp, and I always leave that on except at night when I have the infared light on. My iguana is a different story though. His basking/UVB light setup is attached to a speaker stand which is set about a foot away from his cat tree. It goes on at 8am and stays on until about 9pm, sometimes later. The speaker stand it's on is almost impossible to knock over the way it's setup, so we keep it on even when we're not home. My ig is free to go as he pleases, but usually only leaves to go to the bathroom or to eat. He's a lazy boy. When he was caged though, we did keep the lights just above his tank and they were on almost all the time, with a special heat sensor that would turn the basking lamp off if it went over a certain temp.
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~*Chibi*~
Sir Iggy ( 1.0.0 El Salvador Blue Iguana), Ryo-ohki, Orion, Bud, & Finnegan (3.1.0 crazy kitties), Rosebud (0.1.0 cockerspaniel), and Kayko (0.0.1 leopard gecko)

I would definately havce the lights on longer than that. Why dont you turn them on until 3? If you arent around in the morning to turn them on then i would set them up on a timer so your ig gets a full 10-12hours of light a day
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0.1 mexican kingsnake
1.0.2 Leopard Gecko's
0.0.1 Rose Hair Tarantula
1.0 BTS
0.0.1 Reverse Okeetee Corn
0.1 Bullmastiff
4.1 Cats

Well.. where can i purchase a light timer and for how much? are they complicated?????

i don't see why you would need a timer but they have some at LOWES, home depot, wal-mart, k-mart. Pretty much anywhere.
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1.0 Savannah Monitor - Artimus
2.0 Emerald Swift - Jesus, unnamed
1.0 Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
1.0 Green Iguana - King Arthur
1.0 Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
1.0 Basilisk - Adam
0.1 Water Dragon - Lady

how much???

I dunno, under 20 bucks?
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1.0 Savannah Monitor - Artimus
2.0 Emerald Swift - Jesus, unnamed
1.0 Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
1.0 Green Iguana - King Arthur
1.0 Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
1.0 Basilisk - Adam
0.1 Water Dragon - Lady

You can get light timers anywhere. They cost like $5 at Walmart. They look like a dial that you plug into the wall, and then the light plugs into that. You just set the dial for the time you want the light to go and go off.
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~*Chibi*~
Sir Iggy ( 1.0.0 El Salvador Blue Iguana), Ryo-ohki, Orion, Bud, & Finnegan (3.1.0 crazy kitties), Rosebud (0.1.0 cockerspaniel), and Kayko (0.0.1 leopard gecko)

Hey i went to walmart and bought a light timer today and it was like around 4 something i think... but i probably wont use it.. my iguana got like 14 hours of uvb light yesterday and then like 12 today already so it is going good.. and i can imagine the summer... outdoors..going to be good times. it will be his first summer outdoors with me.. im so excited. lol.

nicole

=-) i am also waiting for summer. I'll be taking my ig and my monitor out for walks.
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1.0 Savannah Monitor - Artimus
2.0 Emerald Swift - Jesus, unnamed
1.0 Baby veiled Cham - Sir August De Winter 1-20-05 RIP
1.0 Green Iguana - King Arthur
1.0 Rose-hair tarantula - Bill
1.0 Basilisk - Adam
0.1 Water Dragon - Lady