Small Varanid Heating Dichroic/GU10 Lights

[Demansiaphile]

Hi all

I've been using GU10 downlights on a number of small varanid over the last 8 months. Great on the wallet and last much longer than flood lights.

I was wondering if anyone is using GU10 Dichroic bulbs that produce UV?

I know several keepers do, but I can not find the particular brand that will let me remove the glass lense cap by scrapping a knife across the seal.

Can anyone point me in the right direction.


Thanks

 

[geckodan]

Try turning it on for half an hour to melt the glue then prise it off as soon as it's cool enough to handle.

 

[Misnomer]

Re the National ones. Sand around the lip...not across it.

 

[spongebob]

The glass is there to stop UV. Of course taking the glass off means the UV is then available. But do you know what wavelength of UV? Here's some info:

http://www.reptileuvinfo.com/docs/dichroic-halogen-report.pdf

 

[Rogue5861]

These lights can produce uvc if glass filter is removed, not very healthy for your reptile.

I would suggest not removing the glass because if the halogen bulb explodes (yes it does happen) your reptile will be covered in 150c glass shards which im sure cant be a good thing.


Rick

 

[Skeptic]

Unfortunately halogens even with the glass removed are insufficient as a UVB source. There's a company (a big one that you'll all know) that actually makes a halogen without the glass and markets it as a source of UV. On the pack in small writing it says, 'Not to be used as a primary source of UVB'. As stated above, halogens tend to explode when they blow and I'm surprised that this company would even have this product on the market.

 

[imported_Varanus]

A word of warning also; I had a bank of these with the glass filters removed as a heat source for a young male lace monitor and the bulbs exposure created hotspots which caused a burn on the monitors upper back. Perhaps this wont be an issue with a more desert adapted species?

 

[lizardwhisperer]

The glass is there to stop UV. Of course taking the glass off means the UV is then available. But do you know what wavelength of UV? Here's some info:

http://www.reptileuvinfo.com/docs/dichroic-halogen-report.pdf

Another nail in the coffin for using dichrotics and GU10s for reptiles.

Only good for heating and lighting (IF you have a PROPER CERAMIC GU10 fitting).