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Hooky87

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I am looking to move my salamanders into the garage within the next few weeks. My question is i currently have no lighting on my salamanders so whats the best lighting to use.

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Matt
 

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Lighting is not really necessary unless you plan on growing plants. The lighting just adds heat to the tank anyways. If you do want lights then go with fluorescent fixtures.
 

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I am converting all my lights to shop light flourescents. Each tank/shelf has a shop light with with 2 40 watt t12 bulbs hanging over it. I am keeping assorted crypts, java, java fern no problem.
 

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i was thinking of adding some sort of light as my garage is dark unlike the spare room they ar all in at the moment. So it will be for viewing more than growing plants, i am looking for the most energy saving bulb that wont have any ill effect on my animals, anyone know of any.

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Then definitely go with fluorescent fixtures, preferably ones that take the T12 bulbs. Wait, what size tank is it?
 

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I have about 80 salamandra in my garage, and the garage is lit by a 6ft florescent tube liniked to a timer set to sunrise/sunset times to give correct photoperiod, just anormal tube type, and no ill effects, unit cost £20 at most complete.

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Cheers for all the replys. My next question is will my garage need any heating to keep my fire sals in, more for the winter realy.
 

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No heating in mine, but i keep an eye out on the temps for frost/freezing, but never had any worries so far, and its just part of the temp/lighting cycle i use.

Ben
 

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Gosh I wish I could keep my salamandra in a garage here.......it would be good all except for the part about them being baked...no, maybe fried is more like it.
 

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If the temp goes towards freezing i put on a small tubular greenhouse heater, gives out a low heat, but its enough to keep the temp up, and they fairly reasonable to buy too.

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Hi Ben,
do you have your heater on a timer or do you just keep it on all day.Also when people keep fire sals outside how do they survive the cold.

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The heater is on a frost stat, so it comes on when the temp goes below a certain temp, and off again when it gets to a set temp, say +5c.
As i dont keep sals outside i would assune maybe piles of logs etc would be used by the sals as they would bury under it, and be fairy safe from the frost and cold

Ben
 
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