Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
I'm not sure where you got your information about the red/black bulbs bother them, but you're wrong. I'm assuming you mean the black bulbs as in like moon glow and stuff. Now as far as a black light black light that makes stuff glow, then yea, I'm not sure if that bothers them or not. I'd probably lean more towards yes, but that bulb doesn't put out heat anyways, or not much if I remember from when I was a kid and owned one.
I use the moonlight bulbs because they annoy the crap out of ME. You're right about black lights not putting out much heat, but it also depends on where their output falls in the UV spectrum. That's largely academic though, since you'd need a ridiculously precise thermometer to measure the difference. As for whether it bothers BP's, I suspect you might be right, but UV covers such a wide range of the spectrum, it's hard to say which frequencies would actually cause an issue.

Interestingly enough, moonlight bulbs (exo terra brand, at least) actually DO cause things to react, but the violet light they produce is on the visible end of the UV spectrum. What's cool is that the things that react under moonlight bulbs don't react under "black" light. Some things even react totally differently. Dark UV inks don't exactly glow, they change color. It makes for an interesting visual impact when they're on. I don't know if I can, but I'll try to get a picture of what it does to the UV printed silk plants in my cage.

Quote Originally Posted by NH93 View Post
There's no need for a debate or telling anyone is wrong or otherwise!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoo...ans/snake1.htm
http://www.anapsid.org/sight.html

There's a few sources, although it is still a debated topic. Snakes, like ball pythons with heat sensing pits, see in infrared. So, no matter what heat is being emitted, they will see it, by that logic.
I might have misunderstood your post, but UV and infrared are at totally opposite ends of the EM spectrum. To be honest, "see" might not even be the best way to explain how they perceive heat. It's entirely possible that they don't see into the IR spectrum very far, if at all. They way they perceive heat may be as far from "visual" as hearing is to taste. It may be a completely different sense entirely, processed in a different part of the brain from touch, taste, smell, taste, or vision.

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