Again, thank you very much for being helpful. I attached these pics hoping this are the items you are referring to when it comes to the type of. enclosure i have. I will move the enclosure away from the windows and back in the work room. You mentioned to put the 10" dome light with the CHE in the center on my enclosure and connect it to the auto on/off thermostat for a 80-90 degree temp 24/7 and hang the double bulb fixture i already have with LED bulbs instead of Basking light, and lay the UV tube on top of the enclosure also. And i have the substrate that you recommended also.Don’t worry I know it can feel a lot to take in and I type quite fast sometimes lol. You can always refer back over these threads to absorb it all, no rush
One potential issue you might run into housing so close to a big window is the heat from the sun effecting your temps, especially with the cover that’ll be needed, a closed chamber can overheat very quickly because there’s no way to control the heat that could be coming in from the sun, it’s safer to have leds as ambient lighting on the 12 hour timer to mimic night&day in there away from a window. You can use the duel dome fitting you already have for some leds. The leds is what I’d hang in the middle.
Those kind of fixtures yes but you ideally want ones slightly bigger than that, theres 10+ inch ones you can get, we don’t personally have to use them in our set up so I can’t recommend specific brands, but I’d look up 10 inch brooder domes with ceramic fitting.
For the size you have you may only need one ceramic, therefore just one dome, but only your digital monitoring/temp gun checks will tell you that.
The uv won’t go in a dome no, the uv that’s recommended are t5 bulbs, these are long tube fluorescent bulbs, they won’t fit in a regular bulb fitting. I tend to recommend the Arcadia brand because it comes with the reflector fitting(what the bulb goes into) but the reptisun 10.0 brand needs it buying separately.
Yeah I agree, that’s what we do too. There’s definitely lots on the market, with thermostats you just want to make sure the wattage it can take is at least double the wattage you’re putting in, you can attach pics of some of the ones you find and we’ll get someone to double check it, we use the microclimate brand but equipment can vary from different locations, so I might not be able to confirm the specific ones you find, but there’s lots of US folks on here that I’m sure can help there.
Yes the thermostat is different from the timer, your leds will be on a 12hr timer(cheap plug in wall timers do the trick) and your uv will be on a separate 4hr timer, no thermostat for either of those.
The ceramic bulbs will be what run on the thermostat, the thermostats job is to regulate the temperature inside the enclosure, it will turn the ceramics on/off as and when needed to stop the enclosure getting too cool or overheating. For ceramic bulbs, on/off thermostats will do the job
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