CaptainRatbag
Very Well-Known Member
So you are saying that snakes can see ir from one of our heatlamps?
Quote from WikipediaSo you are saying that snakes can see ir from one of our heatlamps?
Of course I am and also the visable light. Unsure about uvSo you are saying that snakes can see ir from one of our heatlamps?
because we can see enough of the reflected ir light from white parts of the snake.
So, now you are saying that humans can see heat? What, with our eyes?:shock: Now you are saying when I look at my snake at night with the ir heatlamp on, I am seeing (with my eyes) the heat reflecting off the snake?? And now, my heat mats are emitting only infra red??? Infra red light from a heat mat?:lol: Must be good hooch you got there?:shock::lol: I wish there was a rolling on the floor laughing icon on here :lol:
I better go check my infra red heatmats are ok.... I will use my thermo nuclear plasma laser thermometer to measure the infra red light it is emitting :lol:
Quote from reptile channel . com
Infrared light is the sun’s warmth, and basking reptiles absorb infrared radiation extremely effectively through their skin. This part of the light spectrum is invisible to humans and most reptiles, but some snakes can perceive the longer wavelengths (above 5,000 nanometers) through their facial pit organs. Ceramic heaters and heat mats emit only infrared. Incandescent lamps emit infrared and visible light. Some incandescent red basking lamps are described as “infra-red” lamps, but these also emit red visible light.
Now who's smoking what here?
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NO YOU CANT.
This is my point, you cant see infrared, it is heat.
Thanks for the backup FG, theses ....s were making me crazy.OK. Ratbag. You can't see IR, you can't see its reflection. Black lights, red globes, they aren't IR. How do I know this? I have spent the last 5 years working with IR. As an example our inferred lasers that we use as aiming devices, if you could see it or its reflection with night vision I would be dead several times over. IR is invisable. That's why we use them, so that the enemy, or anyone without NVG can't see it. I'm sure snipercap can back me up on that one.
to be honest i dont really care if we can see it and what not is it alright to have my infrarred lights for heating?
to be honest i dont really care if we can see it and what not is it alright to have my infrarred lights for heating?
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