Light color

[bmm]

Hello! Hope everyone has happy snakes! *L*

Question:

In my snake rack I use white rope lighting to heat. Yeah I know it sounds nuts, but it works IF you do it safely. Keeps a nice hot spot of 84 or so.

Anways!

My rope light burnt out. I need a new one. I have a perfect strand available for it but its the color blue. I am wondering if this is not a good idea because its blue? I looked up some old posts in other forums about light color and people were talking about blue and red being the best choices for nocturnal animals. But I am not sure.

Will it bother them? Keep in mind the light is not blaring into the cages, they hardly get any light from the ropes at all as most of the direct light is kept out of the cages by newspaper substrate.

bmm

[whiffin]

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a rope light?

[pinatamonkey]

This?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ANVA.16._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg


How do you heat the cage with it?

In any case, if the white one worked, I don't see any problems with using a blue one. The only thing people say about red and blue lights is that they can be used at night, because the snake can't see it, but since your snakes don't get much light from it anyways...no problems

[bmm]

I actually hooked the blue up and its no "bluer" than the white inside the cages. So anyways....

The way I use them....

I have a rack that holds 7 36 inch long rubbermaid sweater boxes. So these are long, and thinner, not a square. About 16 inches wide.

When building the rack we left a three inch gap between each shelf and the side of the rack on the right side. I install the rope light going in rows up and then down and so on. Then I plug into thermastat, and timer and it keeps a hot area from 85 at the closest end down to room temp at the other end.

Things to keep in mind:
I do NOT recommend this as a "perfect" or even 100% safe heat source. I use this because I built a rack to work safely with these lights so nothing would be able to catch fire or burn.

Another thing is that the rope light cannot touch another part of the rope light or else you'll have overheating problems.

Also, I would strongly recommend only using these lights WITH a thermastat or other heat controlling device.

:):) sorry for the rant!! :):)

bmm