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"The thermometer sits at about 30degrees at the lamp, but the room can drop to maybe 10degrees! So I was wondering if I'd need another heat lamp, that doesn't emit light and could be left on at night? Her enclosure 3ft x 4ft so the temp can vary quite a lot from where the lamp is.
Many thanks, Moira." I can see that the anti-uv light brigade is happy to jump on any opportunity but uv is not what is being asked about. The OP mentioned the use of a combined lamp but has not made any enquiry here about uvb exposure, only temperature.
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I'm not anti UV, far from it. I have a UV tube for my Bearded dragon. It's not so easy to provide D3 for lizards as it is Torts.
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Tortoises can see uv light, and they expect to see it. I wouldn't like to be kept in the dark myself.
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Why don't you answer the OP's question then? Maybe you don't know what temperature sulcatas are supposed to be kept at.
You're just answering a question that wasn't asked. Have fun with that.
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Hmm, never seen my torts stumbling into things, they have very good eyesight in fact.
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I wouldn't like to be kept in the half dark then.
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That's why we like to point out the alternatives, so people aren't kept in the half dark.
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The OP has not asked if the sulcata needs uvb or not so I'm baffled as to how we got here.
But since we have, I agree with Arcadia John that providing uva and uvb is ultimately a welfare issue as well as a health one. The difference is that he works for a company that makes these things and are in business to sell products so they have a vested interest, which I don't. Tortoises can definitely see uva and uvb and seeing those parts of the light spectrum is linked to activity and behaviour patterns. Why wouldn't we provide any? To save a few quid?
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