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Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan
Hi, a ceramic heater doesn't make an ideal heat source for daytime use for a tortoise partly because it doesn't emit light. Also the heat from them will tend to disperse quickly in an open area.
Many of us are using the combined heat and light UVB bulbs and although some us complain that they can be a bit unreliable, its a convenient all-in-one solution that provides quite reasonable quality of UVB. The UVB strip lights give off relatively little UVB though a reptisun 10 is OK if you decide to go that way.
Ceramic heaters are good at night if the room is really quite cold. Some keepers who use a UVB strip just use a plain bulb for some localised heat but if your room is a cool one then this probably won't be enough.
Hope this helps a bit.
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not a plain bulb.. needs to be a spot i would say.