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Arcadia Solar Basking Floodlight

from £4.99

  • tortoise heat lamp

  • provides essential basking heat

  • encourages natural basking behaviour

  • creates warm basking zones

  • broad, even heat distribution

  • supports healthy digestion and activity

  • available in different wattages

Further Info

The Arcadia Solar Basking Floodlight is designed to provide the warmth and light your tortoise needs to bask, helping recreate the natural heating effects of sunlight within an indoor enclosure.

Tortoises rely on external heat sources to regulate their body temperature. A suitable basking lamp is therefore an essential part of their indoor setup, allowing them to warm up after cooler periods and maintain the body temperature needed for normal digestion, metabolism and activity.

Unlike narrow spotlights, the Solar Basking Floodlight produces a broader spread of heat, helping create a more evenly heated basking area where your tortoise can warm its body.

Benefits for your tortoise:

  • Encourages natural basking behaviour

  • Helps maintain healthy digestion and metabolism

  • Supports normal daytime activity

  • Creates a warm basking area

  • Helps establish a temperature gradient within the enclosure

The floodlight can be used in tortoise tables, vivariums and other appropriately designed indoor enclosures, alongside a suitable UVB lamp and additional daylight lighting where required.

Important: The Solar Basking Floodlight provides heat and visible light but does not replace a dedicated UVB lamp. Always select the appropriate wattage for your enclosure and monitor basking temperatures using a reliable thermometer. Use a suitable ceramic lamp holder and protective guard where necessary.

The Solar Basking Floodlight also emits UVA, which contributes to reptiles' colour vision and well-being. Arcadia recommends using it with a thermostat and species-appropriate UVB lighting.

WATTS:

  • tortoise heat lamp

  • provides essential basking heat

  • encourages natural basking behaviour

  • creates warm basking zones

  • broad, even heat distribution

  • supports healthy digestion and activity

  • available in different wattages

Further Info

The Arcadia Solar Basking Floodlight is designed to provide the warmth and light your tortoise needs to bask, helping recreate the natural heating effects of sunlight within an indoor enclosure.

Tortoises rely on external heat sources to regulate their body temperature. A suitable basking lamp is therefore an essential part of their indoor setup, allowing them to warm up after cooler periods and maintain the body temperature needed for normal digestion, metabolism and activity.

Unlike narrow spotlights, the Solar Basking Floodlight produces a broader spread of heat, helping create a more evenly heated basking area where your tortoise can warm its body.

Benefits for your tortoise:

  • Encourages natural basking behaviour

  • Helps maintain healthy digestion and metabolism

  • Supports normal daytime activity

  • Creates a warm basking area

  • Helps establish a temperature gradient within the enclosure

The floodlight can be used in tortoise tables, vivariums and other appropriately designed indoor enclosures, alongside a suitable UVB lamp and additional daylight lighting where required.

Important: The Solar Basking Floodlight provides heat and visible light but does not replace a dedicated UVB lamp. Always select the appropriate wattage for your enclosure and monitor basking temperatures using a reliable thermometer. Use a suitable ceramic lamp holder and protective guard where necessary.

The Solar Basking Floodlight also emits UVA, which contributes to reptiles' colour vision and well-being. Arcadia recommends using it with a thermostat and species-appropriate UVB lighting.

Arcadia manufacture one of the most reliable mercury vapour bulbs on the market and is the UK's #1 reptile lighting supplier.


The Arcadia Mini D3 UV Basking Lamp is an all-in-one bulb that combines heat, light and the all-important UVB (UV D3) your tortoise needs to be healthy.


The UVB emitted from this bulb is essential to allow vitamin D3 to be absorbed into your tortoise which in turn works with the calcium in a healthy diet to allow their bones and shells to be strong and healthy (and will help prevent metabolic bone disease).


The heat emitted from this bulb will provide a perfect basking area to allow them to thermoregulate.


The UVA light emitted from this bulb will provide a nice bright light allowing your tortoise to see during the day. It should be turned off at night to give your tortoise darkness at night and daylight during the day.


UVB emitted is invisible to the naked eye but the UVB in these bulbs does deteriorate after 6-12 months. After 6-12 months the UVB will be almost non-existent (even though the light and heat will still be working), therefore the bulb should be replaced or you could continue to use the bulb for heat and light BUT should offer an alternative UVB source in your tortoise table.


Additional information:
• Heat, light and UVB can be provided via other methods but it makes sense to go with an all-in-one bulb that will save the cost of additional equipment.
• Approx 6000 hours of light, heat and UV
• E27 Screw Fitting

DO's and DONT's:
• DO hang the bulb VERTICALLY (not at an angle) to allow the convection currents in the bulb to work normally.
• DO use in an open-topped tortoise table (not and enclosed vivarium)
• DO wait for the bulb to cool before replacing
• DO use with the correct heat resistant lamp holder (for example: Exo Terra Glow light holder or Arcadia ceramic reflector holder (140mm for 80w bulb or 200mm for 100w bulb))
• DON'T use with a THERMOSTAT as this will damage the bulb
• DON'T touch the bulb when switched on as it reaches high temperatures