For about 2 months now, my toads haven't had much of a daylight cycle, it's just been natural light form my patio door, and whenever the room's light was on.

And due to my rooms location in my home, it would get darker in the room around 4:00pm.

I now have "Sylvania Daylight 6500K CFL" bulbs shining on their vivarium 12hrs a day, and what I have noticed is that their not as active!

I have a theory, but I'm not sure if I am correct, I think that they are acting more normal now, the lights are simulating daytime, so they remain hidden, yet not 2 minutes after I shut them off at 8:00pm (I run the light form 8:00am-8:00pm) they will come out from hiding.

I am worried though, are the lights too bright? They are only 11 Watts, but they state on the package "Sylvania Daylight 6500K CFL use 11 watts and are 600 lumens bright", could they be hurting their eyes?

Here's a photo of their vivarium (it looks brighter in the photo than they really are)


Should I only put a bulb in one side of the hood to give them a lighter and darker side?

Thanks,

~Royce