{"id":69,"date":"2010-08-14T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T02:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goateetoni.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/14\/natural-sunlight-is-always-better-than-lamps\/"},"modified":"2012-09-01T02:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:06:38","slug":"natural-sunlight-is-always-better-than-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/natural-sunlight-is-always-better-than-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural sunlight is always better than lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UV lamps of different types are used for our animals inside. We like using mercury vapor bulbs like the Zoo med power sun 160 watts and T-Rex UV heat lamp 275 watts. These are very fine lights providing good portion of UVA and UVB rays which are beneficial to reptiles especially the desert dwelling one.<\/p>\n<p>Our lizards such as the bearded dragons and blue tongued skinks love to stay right below the bulbs with a flattened body whenever they&#8217;re put inside. They do well inside but I&#8217;m never satisfied without having a possibly more natural life. During summer I put them in the outside enclosures whenever the weather is fine.<\/p>\n<p>These Australian lizards are known to be among the most tame lizards of the world. but, this only happens in captivity. I have found them many times in Victoria, NSW, Adelaids and also some northern parts of Australia. The wild ones don&#8217;t look so tame. In the daytime whenever you find one and get close to them during they&#8217;re basking, they probably won&#8217;t be running but instead they offer you a grumpy face with a wide opened mouth having the big tongue shown. Very grumpy looking ones indeed! These won&#8217;t often happen in the ones in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Today morning I put the beardies and blue tongues out for basking. I was basking together with them too \ud83d\ude42 Long before when i felt i was done, while they&#8217;re still enjoying it, i stood up and came to take a look at them. They displayed the very big mouths together, very grumpy ones. That&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;ve seen in the deserts. Loved seeing them doing natural behaviors. We&#8217;ve gotta let the wild beasts go wild!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UV lamps of different types are used for our animals inside. We like using mercury vapor bulbs like the Zoo med power sun 160 watts and T-Rex UV heat lamp 275 watts. These are very fine lights providing good portion of UVA and UVB rays which are beneficial to reptiles especially the desert dwelling one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,4],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-ambassador-team","category-general","category-lizards","tag-lizard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}