Lighting and temperature help

[werewolfgyrl101]

have a 10 gallon tank with UTH on the side of the tank and a heating pad under the one side where the UTH heater is also. The light I am using is a white energy saver bulb 13w equivalent to 60 watt regular bulb. The temperature stays around 90 degrees and the humidity stays for the most part around 40%.

My parents bought me a Zilla Night Red Heat Bulb 75 watt and the Zilla Blue Daytime bulb. I only have one lamp above my tank right now so I put the blue one in earlier today the humidity level dropped to around 20% and the temperature went up over 100 degrees. I took it out and put the energy saver bulb back in and the levels went back to around 90 degrees and the humidity stays for the most part around 40%. Tonight we tried the red bulb and sure enough did the same thing that the blue bulb did. I was reading somewhere that the white bulbs will ruin their eyes. Is there something I am doing wrong?

I don't want to hurt his eyes but I also don't want to cook him. The only other things in his tank is a humidity hide, a piece of cork something to hide in, and his food and water bowl.

Sounds like I need to take back the red and blue bulbs. But any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[AmberJean86]

you really dont need any light on your leo's. It actually can do more harm then good by stressing them out. If your temps on the warm side are around 90 degrees, thats perfect. No need to fix something that isnt broken.

 

[grboxa]

I would take out the bulb, use the UTH and purchase a lower watt red/blue lamp so it wont go over 100f.:main_thumbsup:

 

[Thorgecko707]

I'd get a low watt night black heat light.

 

[TylerDurden]

I'm using an under-tank heater, and a ceramic lamp that doesn't emit any light. They're both hooked up to a rheostat and set very low, combined I get 93-94 peak on one hot spot and 86-90 on the rest of the hot side, 76 on the cold side, and there's no light shining in there at all

 

[gothra]

Nothing wrong with using a white bulb, as long as your gecko has a place to shield from the bright light when it needs to. Natural daylight is extremely bright that none artificial lamp can match the intensity, so no need to worry about a light bulb creating stress *as long as you provide enough hides and shades*.

A warm side temp above 90 and humidity ~40% is good enough.

 

[werewolfgyrl101]

thank you for all your help. I will take back the blue and red bulb and just do what I was doing. You are correct "don't fix what isn't broken"

PS) I watched my gecko shed last night for the first time. It was an experience. We felt bad cause he looked like he needed help but we left him do it and he looks great this morning.

Thanks again