UVA vs. UVB Light For Reptiles

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

*Thank you for watching the episode! Please add any further lighting questions you have in the comment section below!*

[@caughtafaygo]

Ayyyy a new episode and its on lighting!! Exactly what im looking to add to some of my boas. Perfect timing! I love these deep dives into each aspect of the husbandry for reptiles! Thanks again!!

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

My pleasure, thanks for watching! Enjoy 😊

[@CricketsMa]

Wow! Think I’m going to have to watch this again. It’s going to take more than my brain to figure out how to light my beardie!

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

I definitely needed to listen to it more than once as well! 😁 lighting is complex!

[@LetsTalkHerps]

Same thing I told Liam. Wow, a ton of usable info. Always learning how to do it better.

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

This is definitely a dense one, but as you said, it’s all about learning how to improve!

[@kirstyward4932]

Omg! This man is a genius. A genuine gem! Hello Thomas 👋

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you very much for watching!

[@kirstyward4932]

Thomas has helped me, as well as many others, with my reptiles before. I could pick his brains apart all day, I have to be careful I'm not harassing the poor man but he's always SO patient and welcoming! Free to give such valuable information. He's a proper gem in the reptile lighting community! Then I see him on your wonderful podcast! ❤ amazing job guys. You should get Thomas on again.

[@brinovecmasa]

Terrific episode! Thank you both! I'll have to watch some bits again, cause I was doing other things while listening/watching it 😃

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Thank you very much for watching, glad you found it helpful! Yes, it’s definitely one that should be listen to a couple of times… I know I had to do that! 😆

[@lukehartley7759]

Oh god Ill listen to this at work tomorrow my bank balance is not ready !!! 😂😂

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

😂😂 I hear ya!

[@pooaxx]

This was very useful. I did learn so much. Lighting explained in a understandable way 🙏🏻

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Glad you found it helpful! 😁

[@darcieclements4880]

I am so stoked that this episode exists. Sorry I missed it when it first came out. The last time that I tried to look into modern lighting, the explanations that people gave me were so incredibly pseudoscientific and full of BS that I found myself very frustrated. Every time I would look up something that someone claimed, it would turn out to be a falsehood or a misunderstanding. Eventually I just decided to stick with species that had less lighting needs, and then do my own experiments to determine what optimal lighting for them would be. With so much misinformation floating around about lighting and other electromagnetic spectrum elements to squamate keeping, I am glad to see a source from someone who actually works professionally with zoological institutions since they are much more likely to be working off of actual scientific papers and not propaganda. I am really looking forward to looking up details from what I will learn in this in the scientific literature for a little bit more detail because I would really love to refine my lighting experiments with a bit more baseline knowledge beyond my time in college 20 years ago.

[@darcieclements4880]

Oh excellent anyone that starts a presentation by explaining the whole going to have to oversimplify this to the point of a lie thing is good person in my book.

[@darcieclements4880]

The story about the laser and the heat pump makes me so happy. This is how I have felt based on some of the conversations I have had lately and I just don't even know how to respond to people who are so into the products labeled as infrared light emitters. Going forward I will be sending people to this presentation regularly because this presentation is far better than anything I could try to explain off the cuff. I am also enjoying some of the new information that has clearly been uncovered since I was in school.

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Really happy you found the episode and enjoyed it! Thomas is a great guy to chat with, if you ever have any lighting questions, I’m sure he’d be happy to answer them!

[@darcieclements4880]

Thanks for having him on! I have written down so many notes!

[@snakemannn1744]

Well done ,,,,, well enjoyed bro '

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@learningformyreptiles1195]

The replacement of halogens with a great idea

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Yeah it really is!

[@BackyardBio]

This was great! Thank you!

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Thanks for watching!

[@rickcroney1286]

Very informative video. Loads of great lighting information! Thank you both

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it, Rick! 😁

[@eco-logicgecko112]

Another great video, the timing of which is perfect as I've gotten to understand lighting better. I'm impressed by Thomas's work ethic, how he self taught himself on the subject and made a successful business out of it - top notch! 👏👏 I can totally relate to the autism bit, getting along with animals better than people and being obsessed with specialist topics. Keep going Thomas/Tomaskus. 👌💯 Awesome presentation style yet again Dillon. I look forward to watching the whole video over the weekend. 👍

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Thanks for watching, Tom! 😁 Thomas definitely lays out some super valuable information here! Hope you’re doing well!

[@eco-logicgecko112]

@@AnimalsatHomePodcast no probs Dillon. All good here thanks, keeping busy with plenty of projects. Hope you and yours are doing good as well.

[@learningformyreptiles1195]

I use a t5 grow light tube and a uvb tube, and I separate them, my animals, all of them use both, and bask under both.

[@Lizardliker]

This was good. Thank you Dillan and Thomas. I found my solar meter serial number. Pleased with how it compares to the others.

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much for watching. Awesome that your solar metre was involved in the study!

[@XC797]

Another video for techies .

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Absolutely!

[@0y1on]

I get that the reptile systems' 400w produces all the infrared/heat needs and obviously all the necessary visible light is produced by the UVB. I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the JD LED strip light though. Shouldn't the T5 UVB cover most the UVB & UVA needs while the Halide light provides supplementation to UVB needs? Also it looks like Halides produce small amounts of UVC is that at all problematic?

[@0y1on]

Oh it also supplements UVB & UVA light I think (along with covering the visible light spectrum)? Sorry was having trouble finding a representation of the JD LED's light output for a bit.

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

The JD LEDs provide visible light spectrum, so between 400 and 700 nanometers. The halides also provide good, visible, spectrum light, but many of us can’t find them where we live.

[@0y1on]

@@AnimalsatHomePodcast Gotcha, that makes sense. I was thinking the UVB lights would do that too but they have much lower and skewed visible light output so it makes sense to have another proper light then. Also thank you for the very informative stuff and I appreciate the quick reply!

[@AnimalsatHomePodcast]

Yep, that’s exactly correct! The quantity of visible light coming from the UV tube is very low