Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:56 pm
The only bulb that exists that does all three is a mercury vapor bulb, but you need to have at least a 55 gallon tank and it needs to be a certain distance away. Otherwise, you'll have to do the two bulb route. There does exist on the market a combo dome that has a circular fluorescent bulb and a heat bulb in the middle, but it's been met with a lot of skepticism on the board, so I don't know if it works or gives out enough UVB, but you can contact the manufacturer, I think it's ZooMed or Exo Terra. If you get two bulbs, the UVB 5.0 bulb is like $15, the fixture like $20, the incandescent bulb is like $1 and the dome fixture is like $10, so even the two bulb route is under $50.
JAX
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