Other than color preference, I'm not sure there's any difference between the red lights and the blue ones. As I understand it, the snakes are not affected by either. And both are prefereable to the regular white light...because the snakes ARE affected by those...and like you....they prefer their night times to be dark.


Sounds to me like you've got things dialed in pretty well...no need to worry about changing bulbs. The general, the ambient daylight that is in the room each day is plenty of "daytime" for the snake, so they don't need a separate white spot light shining into their tank to know it's day outside.