What bulb for american toads?

[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$.