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  • 11-16-2005, 01:50 PM
    jphealy
    Which bulb is better for humidity??
    My bp is going into shed now and I want to make sure his humidity stays high enough. My setup is a wood enclosure with a heat mat underneath the warm end, a 60W white incandescent bulb on during the day, and a 50W ZooMed infra-red bulb on during the night. Both bulbs at warm end too.

    My question is which bulb would dry the air out more? I obviously dont have the option of just having the white bulb on 24 hours if the answer is the infra-red. I could, however, switch the white bulb off and just have the infra-red on 24 hours if that would be better for a higher humidity?

    Maybe they're both the same, but I don't know.
  • 11-16-2005, 02:05 PM
    JimiSnakes
    Re: Which bulb is better for humidity??
    Any heat creating object will lower humidity, but bulbs do this more than most. Any heat lamp will lower the humidity drastically.
  • 11-16-2005, 02:22 PM
    jphealy
    Re: Which bulb is better for humidity??
    I'd get rid of them if I could but my cool side temps and my ambiente temps would be too low without the bulbs.
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