Heating bulbs for at night

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I discovered late in the game that buying a simple table top dimmer switch Would solve those problems. By using high wattage bulbs and dimming them down I got over two years use and counting. I don’t know an exact number because I got away from bulbs. But once I had that dimmer I never burned out another bulb.


As far as bulbs blowing up, that is usually caused by moisture coming in contact with a hot bulb. Could be from a mister, a sneeze, cough, or even a heavy breath.

Oh yeah, these plug in dimmers are only $8-12 at hardware stores or large internet shopping sites.

I use lots of those dimmers (shown) for any of my snakes that have over-head lights...not all of them do, & some only in cooler seasons, as they all have UTH. I also use dimmers on a few of my own lamps- it's a
great way to save electricity & get the "atmosphere" desired by dimming the lights. Much easier than changing bulbs of different wattages too, lol.