Well here is the first update. Unfortunately there aren't any meaningful results yet. I have completed the first round of testing. I will now be switching the bulbs so that each snake has a different bulb. I will run the test 3 more times so each snake will get each bulb. This is why the current results are meaningless. I don't have anything to compare them to.
The snake that did the best was the snake without any artificial lighting. she ate the best, and subsequently grew the most (proportionally to her weight).
The runner up had the nature sun 2.0 bulb.
Third Place goes to Cage #2. This had a standard tube from AP. (Low color temperature/yellow tinted light)
Fourth place goes to Cage #3 This cage had a high color temperature bulb in it (4200K)
There wasn't a huge difference in the snakes, but The girl that was in total darkness grew a noticeable amount while the others not so much. They didn't eat as regularly as she did. But of course I don't have enough data yet to claim that her growth was due to the lack of artificial light and not something else.
The next update will be in 4 months. Then we will start to get results that might actually mean something!
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