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Raz and Mandi-Moon babies are starting to hatch.

Pretty excited!!

Had Mandi (mom) outside today getting some sun. Sun had an intensity of 200 w/cm2

The 10.0 repti sun bulbs are putting out 12 w/cm2. 18 inch bulb at 6 inches away.

What you can do also is get the aluminum tape at Home Depot and create a reflector behind the UVB bulb which nearly doubles your UVB.

Freed a little bird that got caught in my screenroom also:

cheerio chaps
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Those 10.0 reptisun bulbs are pretty expensive to only emit 9-10w/cm2 of UV intensity.

seems virtually insignificant

The UVB mercury vapor bulb I tested today was putting out 45w/cm2 at 6 inches.

I live down here in Tampa Florida and it was 70 degrees and cloudless today. 200w/cm2

Cheers
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Very nice Wayne, they look like they are going to be nicely colored. Good to put the dragons out in the sun. I do all spring through fall. By the way, what type of Mercury vapor bulb do you use ?

I believe the MVB is a powersun.

I will have to look and double check. I have gone through a lot of bulbs. I will find out the ones that have worked best for me. 2 in particular and post the bulb brands... thanks for the good wishes
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thanks for the info on the aluminum tape...never thought of that...great idea! i need to build a screen cage for outdoors so i can put my dragons out...we have a lot of lightning bugs in the summer and i heard they can poison your dragon pretty quickly, and grusomely
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Bearded Dragons(1.2 orange, 0.2 red, 1.1 citrus mix)
Uromastyx(2.3.9 saharan/nigerian and 1.1 philbyi)
Box Turtles(5.10 yellow and orange easterns)
Gargoyle Geckos(0.1 red retic, 1.0 normal)
Frilled Dragon
Leopard Geckos(normal, red stripe, bell, vegas, jungle)

unfortunately yes, the lightning bugs are pretty toxic

Use a screen like window screen (very fine) it will still allow a good deal of light pass through. I should have checked today inside the screen room with the meter to see the difference.

We have love bugs down here but I have not heard of anyone having had any problems... although they look like they are very similar to lightning bugs.

I wonder if there is a anti love bug serum that could be concocted... basically... if you saw one get eaten do a massive fluid flush and wash it through.

Just a thought.
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one is totally out now... transferred that one to a damp paper towel deli cup in the incubator for 24-48 more hours
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Congrats Wayne!

Nice color right out the egg!