post your lighting setup and pics

[spark678]

Well im almost done building my enclosure and I am looking to redo the lighting on it. It was setup for a 24" flourescent bulb on the back wall (on one side) and 2 powersun 160watt mvbs on the top middle. After researching I do not think I am going to go this route with the mvbs. The enclosure is 7x3x2.5. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[james.w]

The flourescent should be good for ambient light and just one MVB on the top opposite end of the flourescent. Two 160w anything will probably be too much heat. I only have one 160w PowerSun and my cage is 8x3.5x3.

 

[kellen.watkins]

Agreed, I can tell you a 160w solar-glo in a non dome fixture from 15"/16" away will give you around a 105 degree basking spot, and a 125 watt from the same distance in a dome fixture will give the same basking temp

 

[spark678]

awesome thanks for the input guys. so should I put two 24" uvb tubes (one on each side) and then just a 160w mvb bulb on one side would that be sufficient? Or should I just do one tube on the wall with the mvb bulb hanging from the ceiling and just a light on the other end of the enclosure?

 

[kellen.watkins]

i plan on putting 2 48" tubes off set on top of a 2' tall enclosure, as far as your questions go i personally would put the UVB tubes on the ceiling fot safety, but as long as your tegu will get exposure to the UVB lighting i dont see any harm in how you set up the lighting