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on both my snakes enclosures i have flourescant lights along with basking lights........ would my snakes be more active if i shut off the strip lights?

they don't need a floresent light. esp since they hide most of the day anyways. i have regular incandecent lights on a couple of my tanks for heat. they are also on timers so they can have a natural day/night cycle.

thats what i was thinking, i have to much light, because at night i have noticed degei comes out when i shut the lights off.... naaza comes out when i shut theflourscant light off, his basking light is a red night heat light..... he will come out at times, i do realize that hide during the day, and i have no problem with that, my sugar glider is hardly ever seen, he hides at the time, expect the evening time when i let him out.....
but i also got to thinking, i wonder if that much light cause any stress? they are fine as far as eating and everything, but i have thought maybe that was part of the reason degei got out, because he stayed right there near the enclosure, just a darker place...

Yes. My daughter's Okeetee hides all day and becomes very active once the lights turn out. They're not great for observing during the day, unless you're handling them. My son's king snake is more diurnal and is out/about during the day.

Walt

My corn ONLY comes out at night as if its the only thing that exists. In the morning,noon,afternoon he is burrowed down into the substrate (shovelnose anyone?) and emerges in the night. When night time comes I handle him and he seems more calm then when I wake him up in the day time.

>>on both my snakes enclosures i have flourescant lights along with basking lights........ would my snakes be more active if i shut off the strip lights?

well it might.
They do tend to be more crepuscular.
I have some that are fairly active during the day and few that don't come out very often during the day.
I just turn on the lights in the morning and turn them off in the evening. No "set" time schedule, just when I get up and before I go to bed.
Although the length of "day" does vary it allows for a day/night cycle.
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