What bulb for american toads?

[Poly]

19 USD aint so bad... Here they are 40 USD in the local petstore
Just remember to use a timer, so you don't accidentally forget the lights on and you take away their precious night.

You're welcome! That's why we all are here, sharing experince

Haha, wow! That's expensive!

I'm glad to get all my info from this site, if I relied on my local pet shop (like many in my town) my toads would be dead a long time ago.

The guy cut me off when I was explaining to him my problem finding a bulb, and said, "I've got the bulb fo you! This can be used for everything, it's the best!" He recommended that I use the Zoo-Med PowerSun 160Watt Reptile basking lamp for my two toads... then he said "ohh, but you wouldn't want to see the price of it" I said "yeeah, okay..." lol

This is the lamp he recommended me for toads: PowerSun

Oh, and he also told me that if I run out of food, I can feed me toads carrots and lettuce...

Once again, really glad to get my info here guys!

[ViperJr]

160W PowerSun is great... If you want to cook the toads!

Good thing you are smart enough to realize he had no idea what he was talking about.

[Poly]

160W PowerSun is great... If you want to cook the toads!

Darn it! I was going to say that, well rather, type that, until I forgot... such a great analogy: 160W PowerSun bulb = Baked Toads (for lunch maybe?)

Haha!

[Lady medusa]

I know this was posted a lil while ago but i figure ill add .02. Have you ever thought of using LED lights? Lots of them dont produce UV light but are in a good spectrum for plants. They make small LED light set ups that are by marineland and i use them over my mantella tank and my philodendron and pothos is doing well. Also look into aquariums plant lights that are in the red spectrum. Believe it or not walmart has some normal florescent plant lights in their light section. They make some that are in 24" fixtures and 18" fixtures. The 18" fixtures you can attach to eachother to add more light. I have a 24" plant bulb with a 150 watt basking bulb on my 75 gallon. My plants in there are doing great. If you dont have a walmart in canada then checkout a hardware store or contact a plant nursery on where you can get certain plant bulbs. Next you may want to decide what type of plants you want. Do you want high light, medium light, or low light plants? And research what those plants needs are and if they are compatable with your toad.

[Poly]

I know this was posted a lil while ago but i figure ill add .02. Have you ever thought of using LED lights? Lots of them dont produce UV light but are in a good spectrum for plants. They make small LED light set ups that are by marineland and i use them over my mantella tank and my philodendron and pothos is doing well. Also look into aquariums plant lights that are in the red spectrum. Believe it or not walmart has some normal florescent plant lights in their light section. They make some that are in 24" fixtures and 18" fixtures. The 18" fixtures you can attach to eachother to add more light. I have a 24" plant bulb with a 150 watt basking bulb on my 75 gallon. My plants in there are doing great. If you dont have a walmart in canada then checkout a hardware store or contact a plant nursery on where you can get certain plant bulbs. Next you may want to decide what type of plants you want. Do you want high light, medium light, or low light plants? And research what those plants needs are and if they are compatable with your toad.

Thanks for the info. Most plants are compatable with toads, the only ones that arn't are conifer shubs.

Hahahahahaha! You don't think Canada has Wal-Mart? We do...

I'm now using the bulbs Martin told me about, and they work great, not to mention, I saved a good 40$.