Black lights??

[Bay_area]

Black lights have too much UV lighting. It could possibly cause the snake to go blind. I know someone that used them on leapard geckos & it blinded all of them. I use plant grow lights myself for lighting

[Elliot]

Black lights have too much UV lighting. It could possibly cause the snake to go blind. I know someone that used them on leapard geckos & it blinded all of them. I use plant grow lights myself for lighting

How are you sure that they have too much UV lighting? I'm not saying that you're wrong, I've just never heard of any kind of lightbulbs causing blindness in any reptiles. I've used one of mine some, and I haven't seen any problems from it. Of course, it is designed to be used with reptiles.

[Bay_area]

How are you sure that they have too much UV lighting? I'm not saying that you're wrong, I've just never heard of any kind of lightbulbs causing blindness in any reptiles. I've used one of mine some, and I haven't seen any problems from it. Of course, it is designed to be used with reptiles.

There were test done before. The UVA rays from black lights are very high. There was a good article on reptile lights in the "Vivarium magazine" before. There are UV indicators available. I would never use it with a nocturnal reptile & limited use with diurnal reptiles
here is a chart, if I remember right; the UVB is what is needed in lizard & turtles for absorbing vitamin D3

Bulb
Manufacturer

UVA
UVB
Illuminance (lux)

Reptisun UVB 310
Zoo Med1

23
10
398

Reptile D-Light 8%
National Biolological Corp.
no longer made

7
9
409

Reptile D-Light 3%
National Biolological Corp.
no longer made

6
4
430

Reptile Daylight
Energy Savers Unlimited (ESU)

3
3
398

Sylvania 350 Blacklight
Sylvania

153
2.6
86

Metal Halide, 100w, 5500K
Energy Savers Unlimited (ESU)

40
1.9
2260

Vita-Lite
Duro-Test

6
1.3
452

VLX Full Spectrum
Verilux

3
1.2
490

ReptaSun
Fluker

5
1.1
538

Chroma 50
General Electric

2
1.1
495

Colortone 50
Philips Lighting Co.

2
1.1
484

Lumichrome Full Spectrum2
Lumiram

4
0.9
527

Ott-Lite
Environmental Lighting Concepts

2
0.9
479

Repti-Glo
Rolf C. Hagen Corp.

1
0.9
829

Cool White
Sylvania Lighting

2
0.1
527