Basking bulb?

Milo82

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Hi, can you recommend the wattage for the basking bulb for a 48x18x18 Inch Vivarium please.
 

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At that age it needs to be in a minimum of a 4x8 foot enclosure. Does not neet to be in a enclosed chamber enclosure/ vivarium.
65 watt flood bulb in an open table would probably work, but only you with a temp gun can really know.
 

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Hi, can you recommend the wattage for the basking bulb for a 48x18x18 Inch Vivarium please.
Only your thermometer can answer this question for you, but 65 watts is a good starting point.

I agree that this vivarium is much too small for a 4-5 year old horsfield. You need something much larger than that.

Have you seen this one yet:
 
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