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[dragonbreeder]

Does anyone use bulbs such as reptisun 5.0 inside their chameleon cages? The reason I ask is that I use one inside my chondro enclosure, located in top front so you cannot see it, but the cage is illuminated excellently. This method shows your animals colors much better than when the bulb is in a hood on top of the cage. For safely, rubber end caps are used (from aquarium dealers), so humidity do not cause issues. The bulbs do not get hot either.

I was looking to see if anyone out there has tried this.
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Lou
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[Rickeezee]

I have some chameleon vivs with reptisuns inside and some with them outside.

My custom cham vivs have 6mm top mesh so this does not affect the UV penetration and I use four foot tubes with reflectors across the top of two vivs more economical that way. On my vivs with standard gauge insect mesh on the tops, I mount the UV tubes internally as this gauge mesh cuts out a lot of the beneficial UV.

With flexariums I allways mount the UV tubes internally also.
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