Beardie heat light

[kimba83]

im wondering how many people turn there beardies heat lights off at night when they turn off there UV globes?


mine seems to stay on alot.. and even when i have the UV on the beardie likes to hang under the reptasunglow heat light i have.

[Spikie wanna cricket]

i have me uv on timer and ceramic heat on themostat so my turns itself on and off .
this way i dont cook them, which many people have done

[kimba83]

yeah mines on a thermo stat.. dosnt seem to go off much tho and its only set to 26 - 28

[Spikie wanna cricket]

check ur thermo is working try turning it down it should go off if it doesnt then it is broken we had one do that b4 on our baby birds lucky we were feeding them alot so we noticed straight away

[Miss B]

My heat globes and UV bulbs are all hooked up to a timer - on for 12-13 hrs per day, switched off overnight. Heat globes stay on all day, I use a pulsing thermostat, it does not turn the heat globe on and off. I don't like the 'ON/OFF' style thermostats.

[Brettix]

I have the heat and lights all plugged into a thermo and the thermo is plugged into
a timer so the lot turns off at night.

[pepper]

I leave a heat mat on all the time and turn the lights off at night

[kimba83]

so miss B ur heat light goes off at night also same as the uv?

[dragon lady]

.............Lots of people leave on their lights...dont know why ,we dont live in Antartica!
If our reptiles dont cool down...& they dont have a idea when night and day is.....they adventually wont eat properly alas a unhealthy reptile...
LIGHTS on at Dawn & OFF at Dusk.....connect all up to a timer....if you are cocerned place a digital thermometre in tank and usually at night (im in S.A..,its cooler here) it doesnt get below 16*.
PS: the only reason i leave a heat light on(not u.v) is if its hatchlings in tank (for 1st month only)
or its a hospital tank

[Duke]

I have my UV come on an hour after the lights, then off an hour before the lights go off too.
Make it more like real life, where the light comes before the UV dosage.

[Miss B]

Originally Posted by kimba83

so miss B ur heat light goes off at night also same as the uv?

Yep - they are plugged into the same timer, both the heat globe and UV light switch on around 6-7am and then switch off at about 8-9pm. I have never used overnight heating, the weather never gets cold enough here in Brissie to warrant it.

[kimba83]

yeah but im in melbourne and it gets pretty damn cold..
im gana try turning both lights off at 9pm..

and then turn them on in the morning.. possibly look at getting that switch timer thingy..would make life easyer lol

[Miss B]

Yeah they are cheap as, like $5-6 from Bunnings.

[reptilegirl_jordan]

i just have a thermo in mine to keep an idea on temps then i turn all lights off at nite time

[planks]

i have 3 ceramics that run on an on/off thermostat 24/7 with my uv that has 2 day globes wired in to the same plug witch i just turn on and off when i get up and when it gets dark