Light and heat for the terrarium

In the wild the sun not only provides light, it also provides essential heat and UVA and UVB radiation. Since terrarium animals are ectotherm, they are much more dependent on high-quality light than warm-blooded vertebrates are. It influences their activity, their digestion and their resting periods. Their well-being is enhanced by UV light. In short, the lighting determines daily routine and animal welfare. Light places literally attract terrarium dwellers to sunbathe and are associated with heat.

We will briefly present what types of lighting are available and which of them suit your animals, in the following:

Tropical dwellers

  • Light with UV for tropical forest animals (rainforest, dry forest & swamps): Many forest animals receive a reasonable amount of UV light through their way of life, e.g. on the treetops or on the river banks. Light without UV for tropical forest animals (rainforest & dry forest): Some tropical forest animals live on the ground or in the shade and don’t need any UV light, which can then even be harmful. Heat for tropical forest animals: Tropical forest dwellers often need high daytime temperatures and slightly lower nighttime temperatures (e.g. Amazonia with 32 °C during the day and 23 °C at night – shouldn’t fall below!). Switching the warming lighting off during the day means the temperatures are lowered at night.

Desert dwellers

  • Light with UV for desert animals: Day-active animals in deserts and steppes need large amounts of light and UV and a lot of them need local heat spots too, which can be actively accessed. Since light is associated with heat, irradiated spots are automatically visited. Heat for desert animals: Desert animals are used to high daytime temperatures and often to low nighttime temperatures. If they get too warm during the day, they need to be able to retreat to cooler places in the terrarium.

Crepuscular and nocturnal animals

  • Light for crepuscular and nocturnal animals: Many of these animals only become active once the prevailing daytime UV radiation decreases at twilight. Please illuminate normally with UV light during the day (see “Light with UV”). Heat for crepuscular and nocturnal animals: Nocturnal animals from tropical forests need higher temperatures between 23 and 30 °C at night too, whereas nocturnal desert animals prefer lower temperatures of 15-22 °C.

You will find a product advisor on the respective types here: Lighting

© 06.09.2015
Matthias Wiesensee
Matthias Wiesensee
M.Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik

Social Media, Online Marketing, Homepage, Kundenservice, Problemlöser, Fotografie, Blogger, Tauchen, Inlineskating, Aquaristik, Gartenteich, Reisen, Technik, Elektronische Musik

About me: Seit Teenagerzeiten mit Aquarien in Kontakt. Klassische Fischaquarien, reine Pflanzenaquarien bis hin zum Aquascape. Aber auch ein Gartenteich und Riffaquarien begleiten mich privat im Hobby. Als Wirtschaftsinformatiker, M.Sc. bin ich als Online Marketing Manager bei JBL für die Bereiche Social Media, Webentwicklung und der Kommunikation mit dem Anwender der JBL Produkte zuständig und kenne die JBL Produkte im Detail.

Comments

A word about cookies before we continue

The JBL Homepage also uses several types of cookies to provide you with full functionality and many services: We require technical and functional cookies to ensure that everything works when you visit this website. We also use cookies for marketing purposes. This ensures that we recognise you when you visit our extensive site again, that we can measure the success of our campaigns and that the personalisation cookies allow us to address you individually and directly, adapted to your needs - even outside our website. You can determine at any time - even at a later date - which cookies you allow and which you do not allow (more on this under "Change settings").

The JBL website uses several types of cookies to provide you with full functionality and many services: Technical and functional cookies are absolutely necessary so that everything works when you visit this website. In addition, we use cookies for marketing purposes. You can determine at any time - even at a later date - which cookies you allow and which you do not (more on this under "Change settings").

Our data protection declaration tells you how we process personal data and what purposes we use the data processing for. tells you how we process personal data and what purposes we use the data processing for. Please confirm the use of all cookies by clicking "Accept" - and you're on your way.

Are you over 16 years old? Then confirm the use of all cookies with "Noticed" and you are ready to go.

Choose your cookie settings

Technical and functional cookies, so that everything works when you visit our website.
Marketing cookies, so that we recognize you on our pages and can measure the success of our campaigns.

PUSH messages from JBL

What are PUSH messages? As part of the W3C standard, web notifications define an API for end-user notifications that are sent to the user's desktop and/or mobile devices via the browser. Notifications appear on the end devices as they are familiar to the end user from apps installed on the device (e.g. emails). Notifications appear on the end user’s device, just like an app (e.g. for emails) installed on the device.

These notifications enable a website operator to contact its users whenever they have a browser open - it doesn’t matter whether the user is currently visiting the website or not.

To be able to send web push notifications, all you need is a website with a web push code installed. This allows brands without apps to take advantage of many of the benefits of push notifications (personalised real-time communications at just the right moment).

Web notifications are part of the W3C standard and define an API for end user notifications. A notification makes it possible to inform the user about an event, such as a new blog post, outside the context of a website.

JBL GmbH & Co. KG provides this service free of charge, and it is easy to activate or deactivate.