Lighting a snake room

Hi All,

I have a room that has no natural light that I would like to use to house my hatchling rack.

I was wondering if you think this will be ok for the snakes?

If so what sort of lighting should I use?

I was thinking of putting daylight spectrum bulbs on a timer so simulate day and night.

Thanks

Corn snakes don't require any special lighting needs. The timer sounds great, but you can use whatever type bulb(s) you want.

Its true, that I dont think they Need special lights but if you wish to use them, please do Maybe there will be something there that will help the snakes and you can let us know how it goes and we will all learn something?

Thanks guys,

The main reason for thining of the daylight spectrum bulbs is that I think it will bring out the colours of the snakes better in a dark room!

It might be good for them as well.

The bulbs have this spec (and they are energy saving!)

Massive 105w Balanced Daylight Bulb ES Fitting. 105w balanced Daylight Compact fluorescent bulb that has the equivalent of 525 watts of tungsten bulb.5500k Colour temperature which is perfect for photography most electronicflashes and strobes use

*5500k-5600k Spectrum
*8000 hours average life
*5500k colour temperature
*Energy efficient
*525 watts lighting power

thats more of a grow light or flood light isnt it?

Sort of. It does a good job of lighting the room about the same as a couple of flourecent srtrip lights but the colour temp is more like daylight than yellow.

cool, i was goingto go look at smaller fluorecent fixtures for my tanks today. i am currently using 100 watt CFL daylight bulbs in the small dome shaped fixtures on the tanks