What should I use for reptile and plant lighting?
seracafema asked:
I have just bought a Calabar Python, a rare burrowing snake, and I am planning on keeping it in a 30 long Glass aquarium. I already have a 75 watt infared heat bulb and a heating pad, is there any other kind of lighting I need to add live plants? Also, any plant suggestions?
I have just bought a Calabar Python, a rare burrowing snake, and I am planning on keeping it in a 30 long Glass aquarium. I already have a 75 watt infared heat bulb and a heating pad, is there any other kind of lighting I need to add live plants? Also, any plant suggestions?
i don’t think you should add live plants, it could be dangerous, because i’m guessing your python is from africa? my python is, and basically most plants that we get at home aren’t gonna be from there, and therefore they’re foregin to our pets, and can be dangerous with waterever natural chemicals and such they have. also plants usually pick up bugs, even if they’re really small ones, they can easily be a hazard to your snake, if you wer eto have a plant it would have to be something from the same area your snake naturally originates from, but even so, with the big infestation concept, it can be very dangerous. and you don’t need anymore lighing equiptment, just get a thermomedar, and look up the appropriate temperature for your snake , and make sure it stays around there, mines 80 degrees f. also make sure you have a water dish but i’m sure you have that, because snakes soak in them to apsorb there water. but yeah, good luck man, snakes are so beautiful
i love mine to bits, i hope you’ll get along well with yours. mines a ball python [who] not_confused_just_unsure