Quote Originally Posted by DigitalPunk View Post
UVB and UVA bulbs (among others) dry the air out rapidly.


If you ditched the UVA/UVB bulb and went with a LED light that puts off 6500k light your live plants will love it. LED lights do not put off any heat and will not dry the air out.

Instead of using a light bulb and heating mat to heat the tank look into use a Ceramic Heat Emitter. They produce not light and do not dry the air out as fast as other heat sources. Ceramic Heat Emitters use radiant heat which is Awesome for Vivariums.

You can buy them and domes for them on Amazon or at most pet stores. I have always found Amazon to have the best prices.


I have tried several methods to heat tanks and short of heating the room the tank is in the best option I have found is a CHE.

Paul
thank you, thank you!! This is the type of information I badly need and have not found in any of my 3 books!!!

I will work on that immediately. I am also a big fan of Amazon, except for tank ordering (I ordered 3, each arrived broken).

Does the ceramic heater not provide too much light? I will need it on at night.

Again, thank you.