Florescent CFL To Light Enclosure

[TADitto]

I am currently using a MVB at one end of my sulcata enclosure and was wondering if a regular CFL bulb from Lowes or home depot would be ok to light up the rest of there enclosure?

 

[BrinnANDTorts]

I am currently using a MVB at one end of my sulcata enclosure and was wondering if a regular CFL bulb from Lowes or home depot would be ok to light up the rest of there enclosure?

I'm no expert but if those are fluorescent coil light bulbs a lot of people have told me that they will damage your tortoises and even cause blindness. I would try to google it and research it on the internet.

 

[SulcataSquirt]

I would assume it would be okay to use. Regular cfl bulbs don't emmit uv rays. I think I recall the problem with the coil uv bulbs are they concentrate the uv rays to much at the end of the bulb. Or they emmit a little uvc which is harmful. I'd wait to hear from someone who has use a regular cfl first.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

I personally use regular 100 watt bulbs for stuff like that. After getting one tortoises blinded by a cfl bulb I ain't taking any chances...Use a regular bulb...

 

[Cfr200]

I have used a CFL to light my enclosure with no problems at all for over a year. I use a 6500k and it puts out a nice white light, I did not like the yellow color of a regular CFL.