Terrarium Prep. Questions.

When using Eco Earth, right after letting it soak, you might want to put it in the oven for about 30 min in a lasagna pan to dry it out. Then lay it over the bottom of the tank and let the temps settle back down before putting your BP back in.

I wrung it out by hand and put it in the terrarium with the heat and light on, the humidity has dropped from around 88% this morning to 68% currently. I have the lid off now but I'm not worried about the humidity at the moment as I have a week until I get her so I should be able to perfect the humidity and temps.

The Helix is great.. no need for the night drop.

I really don't know on the blue bulb.. I know red bulbs are fine to be on overnight.. as well as ceramic heat emitters.

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Originally Posted by Perry

Another question, would it be alright to have a blue light running all day and night provided i do have a white light running on a 12 hour timer too?

Thanks, Perry.

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We had blue "moonlight" bulbs on our original 20L vivariums, which we had plugged in 24 hour power strip; 2 plugs for day, 2 for night plus 4 more just regular power plug ins. Anywho, we had a regular white light lamp for the day time and the moonlight bulb lamp for night so we could see them.

So, to answer your specific question, yes you can leave the moonlight bulb on all the time, but I wouldn't count on it as a heat source.

See the link in my signature for a full write up on how we had our original glass vivariums set up and let me know if you have questions. =)

We still use these power strips and just turn on white lights automatically for the day.