Vivarium Heat Bulb Keeps Blowing

My gut response without being able to take a look at your setup is that your lamps are being worn out prematurely by too much off and on.

Vivarium heat bulb keeps blowing.

If the spring loaded connectors are working properly inside the bulb holder. Main causes of headlight bulbs blowing the type of bulb. Firstly the wattage of the lamps used is generally for outside use as they need to give off a certain amount of heat in a vivarium the heat cannot escape and so burns out the filament winding however this is the intended use of a high wattage lamp in a vivarium i use these with my iguana. Just play around with the wattage until you hit the temp range your lizards need and make sure you use fixtures with.

This explains why the nature of the headlight matters. I keep quite a few high temp lizards collared lizards uros and a couple of savs in 10 different largish enclosures and i use a mix of regular incandescent and halogen full spectrum spots for the basking and heat bulbs. Basking bulb keeps blowing out. It s really cold here too so i ended up putting taz s chi heat bulb in the main basking lamp and using a clamp lamp with a regular bulb a clam lamp that has yet to eat any of the bulbs.

By blowing i m assuming you mean the lamp keeps burning out and not actually exploding. So three things to look into if your bulbs keep blowing. By kristent mon feb 13 2012 8 12. Bearded dragon s heat bulb keeps blowing.

Headlights are vital as they help us to drive during the night. The timer and the lights plug into the surge protector. In simpler terms they are a source of security on any modern car. Most thermostats operate like a heat controlled switch full on full off.