No matter what you go for avoid overheating the entire tortoise enclosure with a heat lamp that is too powerful for your enclosure size.
Uvb heat lamp for tortoise.
Sources of heat for your tortoise come in different forms and you can choose from them depending on your tortoise specie your budget or your preference.
Stay away from screw in uvb lamps.
Both are very essential to the health of your tortoise.
Complete guide for best heat lamp for tortoise.
Both are important but the key distinction is that the uv light should pretty much fill the entire space in the terrarium or tortoise table whereas the heat lamp only needs to be positioned in one corner.
Uva or uvb for the tortoise.
How long does a tortoise need a heat lamp.
Uvb should be supplied by the way of a t5 high output tube style lamp.
5 best heat lamps for tortoises.
To ensure maximum uv exposure i like to use a uvb strip light that spans the full length of my tortoise table and maintaining a heat gradient is achieved by positioning a heat lamp at one end.
Reptisun mini compact fluorescent uvb by zoo med.
Common questions about tortoise uvb lights q.
Crucially though one of the main reasons for having an covered space for your tortoise to retreat is to allow them to retreat from heat uv or both.
Tortoises require light sources to provide both heat and ultraviolet light.
A tortoise needs heat for 8 to 18 hours.
An african tortoise the sulcata tortoise lighting requirements are similar to most desert species of tortoise.