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DoubleG909
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First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb?
#14422160 - 05/08/11 10:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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As stated in the subject, this is my first time using a shotgun chamber. I have a 16watt CFL bulb at 6500k set in a standard light bulb socket which hangs directly over the chamber from its cord. My concern is that although the chamber is clear with holes in it, there is still a good deal of opaqueness to it which I was wondering would diminish the effectiveness of the light source. I would think opening the lid to get around that would bring the humidity of the chamber way down and invite contaminants. Should I be looking into one of the tap-lights I'm seeing included with these full kits to put on the inside under the lid? And do they even make a tap-light that emits far enough into the blue spectrum to be ideal?
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i GrOw StUFF
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: DoubleG909]
#14422190 - 05/08/11 10:09 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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How clear is the tub, have a pic?....dont put the light inside the tub...
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shroomiin
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: i GrOw StUFF]
#14422205 - 05/08/11 10:12 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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don't worry about it. Keep the chamber closed or else it wont work. You don't need too much lite.
if you're worried just leave it out during the day near a window or something in in-direct sunlight. Which is plenty.
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DoubleG909
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: shroomiin]
#14422306 - 05/08/11 10:33 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hear ya loud and clear on keeping the lid closed. As far as getting it in natural indirect sunlight from a window, that's gonna be hard because I'm in a basement apartment. I have windows but they are small and up high on the walls.
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shroomiin
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: DoubleG909]
#14422321 - 05/08/11 10:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ok, then use the light you originally planned on using and dont worry about it.
Unlike plants they dont need strong direct light
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DoubleG909
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: i GrOw StUFF]
#14422326 - 05/08/11 10:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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don't have a pic of my exact chamber but did a search online for the same tub and found couple of pics that is the same brand and exact to the clearness of my chamber minus all the holes that mine has of course.
http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/files/1/2/3/8/1/img00306.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vooMZMjD5vM/TUWHdxxUEbI/AAAAAAAAAxs/rQpvJ9bXgSk/s1600/IMG_3202.JPG
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i GrOw StUFF
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: DoubleG909]
#14422343 - 05/08/11 10:39 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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that tub is fine...
-------------------- The mushrooms, which grow only during the season of torrential rains, awaken the forces of creation and produce an experience of spiritual abundance, of an astonishing, inexhaustible constitution of forms that identifies them with fertility and makes them a mediation, a means of communion, of communication between man and the natural world of which they are the metaphysical flesh.
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shroomiin
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: i GrOw StUFF]
#14422389 - 05/08/11 10:50 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah man, don't worry about it. I thought you were talking about a way darker opaqueness, which still wouldnt be that big of a deal.
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DoubleG909
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Re: First go at a shotgun chamber. Lid open or closed w/ a 15watt CFL bulb? [Re: shroomiin]
#14422643 - 05/08/11 11:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ok great. Thanks for the help and quick responses!
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