Herc
11-04-2007, 06:51 PM
Well, winter is just around the corner here on the west coast, and with it comes the dark, gloomy, rainy days and nights...
We live in a basement suite which is half submerged so getting any type of natural light from the bedroom window (the room we all live in most of the time, esp. since it is warmest and I can easy control drafts) is difficult, esp. in the winter months...
Tiko and Hercules are on opposite walls of the bedroom... Tiko has a fluorescent light fixture above her cage so she gets plenty of light, but the light doesn't reach as bright as I'd like it for Hercules' cage now that the days are getting darker... on his side of the room the plug is about 2 metres away from his cage, and I'm finding that all the fixtures I looked at today have only a 1.something metre long cord... :mad: Isn't that always the way. I guess I will have to look at Home Depot tomorrow to see if they have anything better than the places I checked today...
Is anybody else in my situation? How do you all handle lighting, when there isn't much sun to go around even in the best of times during winter? And how much light does he need to stay healthy? In his previous home he was under a natural sky light so got plenty of natural light and I feel badly that even tho I give him so much in so many other ways, just I can't give him that...
Any suggestions?
We live in a basement suite which is half submerged so getting any type of natural light from the bedroom window (the room we all live in most of the time, esp. since it is warmest and I can easy control drafts) is difficult, esp. in the winter months...
Tiko and Hercules are on opposite walls of the bedroom... Tiko has a fluorescent light fixture above her cage so she gets plenty of light, but the light doesn't reach as bright as I'd like it for Hercules' cage now that the days are getting darker... on his side of the room the plug is about 2 metres away from his cage, and I'm finding that all the fixtures I looked at today have only a 1.something metre long cord... :mad: Isn't that always the way. I guess I will have to look at Home Depot tomorrow to see if they have anything better than the places I checked today...
Is anybody else in my situation? How do you all handle lighting, when there isn't much sun to go around even in the best of times during winter? And how much light does he need to stay healthy? In his previous home he was under a natural sky light so got plenty of natural light and I feel badly that even tho I give him so much in so many other ways, just I can't give him that...
Any suggestions?