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    At about 3" from your lights, it is about half the brightness of a heavily overcast day, or about 1/16 of full on sunlight (depends on the reflectors in your lighting hood a little). Indoor lights put out very little light compared to nature unless you really pile them in there or get so close you're going to burn yourself on them anyways.

    Which brings up another point, make sure he can't get too close to the bulbs for an Icarus moment. The should either be raised a couple of inches from the top of the tank or the highest perch should be a couple of inches from the top.

    It's great you've provided multiple perches so he can choose how far from the light to be, he should do some self regulation with options like that.

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    Good to know thanks!.

    Here he is after I placed the sensor.
    you can see his pupils are clamped shut.
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    Here here is the entire set up,(sorry I didn't use the flash)
    It has the Exo-terra light that the CFL bulbs are a good 2.5 from the top of the enclosure.
    So he can't get near the bulbs.
    The two lights on the front are 50W ceramic heaters only 1 is used at a time.
    What can I say I like having back ups
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    He seemed a little lost after moving
    so I put a rock and his old hide back in and he
    made a beeline for it and settled in and started his day time nap.

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    I will give him a few months on his own before getting a female.
    Hopefully the female will like to be out and about more than he does.
    He spends the entire day in there .

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    They are nocturnal, too. Mine sleep all day. I have my light cycle from 530am to 530pm and then have just a red light on from 5:30 till we go to bed, at which point all lights go off. The red is strictly for us to see them because they will wake up and start their day with it, where if it's the white light they refuse to wake up. 5:30 is when I'm done work and its frog care time before I start dinner.

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    Here is a vid of Bubba getting a little snack in his new diggs.

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