Ultimate Reptile Lighting Guide

What lights do reptiles need? Do reptiles need UVA or UVB? Do snakes need light or just heat? Do reptiles need light at night? This episode is a complete guide to lighting a reptile enclosure!

Dr. Frances Baines is one of the most well-known reptile lighting experts herpetoculture has to offer. Dr. Baines is a vet out of the UK and has decades of experience studying the optimal light requirements for captive reptiles and has spent years testing and advising reptile brands as they develop new lighting technology. In this episode, Dr. Baines fills us in on how she got started studying reptile lighting, we discuss how to replicate the solar spectrum including what function each section of the spectrum has. We cover lighting for nocturnal species, simulating dusk and dawn, D3 synthesis, and the remarkable role of vitamin D beyond calcium metabolism.

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Video Clips and Photos Used in Episode:
Roman Muryn, Here a 3 Lamp evaluation with Crotophytus collaris collaris and Laudakia stellio brachydactyla,    • Here a 3 Lamp evaluation with Crotoph...  

JTB Reptiles, Photoperiods: Vivarium Lighting Setup w/ Sunrise & Sunset – How Long to Leave Lights On For Reptiles,    • Photoperiods: Vivarium Lighting Setup...  

0:00 Coming Up
1:24 Guest Introduction
4:56 Housekeeping
5:35 Welcome Dr. Baines / Give us your background
11:55 What drew you towards studying reptile lighting?
18:20 Becoming a Zoo Lighting Advisor
24:05 Do we NEED Full Spectrum Light?
41:23 How do we replicate sunlight?
51:48 Providing Infrared
54:44 What purpose does each section of the spectrum serve?
1:07:00 Light for Nocturnal Species
1:14:33 Dusk & Dawn
1:18:48 UVB & Vitamin D3
1:31:30 Dangers of UV
1:40:09 Closing Thoughts
1:42:25 Outro

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Welcome to my channel, Animals at Home! Here you will find the reptile videos I have made as well as video versions of The Animals at Home Podcast! The podcast mainly focuses on the pet reptile industry. My mission with Animals at Home is simple: To inspire others to push the limits of their reptile husbandry by promoting the importance of high-level, creative husbandry individualized for each reptile.

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Try this at your own risk! I take full responsibility for the safety of this setup for myself but cannot recommend anyone copy what I have done unless you are willing to do the same.