REPTILE LIGHTING: Fundamentals You NEED to KNOW | Thomas Griffiths

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Thomas Griffiths is the owner of Tomaskas Ltd. which is an animal husbandry and lighting consultancy out of the UK. Thomas mainly focuses on implementing proper lighting protocols for both private keepers and zoos. In this episode, Thomas breaks down the fundamental light information that will allow you to have a firmer grasp on providing the appropriate lighting for your reptile. We discuss, the solar spectrum, UVI, lux and lumens, color temperature, SolarMeters, lighting your enclosures, and much more!

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References from Episode:
Lying to Children:
Cohen, Jack (1994). The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering simplicity in a complex world. New York: Viking Press. Ed Ian Stewart.

Digestive Enzymes – child level education:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z88hcj6/revision/1

Digestive Enzymes – truth:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Enzyme-substrate-interactions-in-ChiB-A-Surface-representation-showing-aromatic-side_fig1_6680874

YouTube video from Kurzgesagt:
https://youtu.be/XFqn3uy238E

Reptifiles:
https://reptifiles.com

UV Guide – an old website from Dr Baines:
http://www.uvguide.co.uk

Action Spectra for Vitamin D and others:
https://www.en-standard.eu/din-5031-10-optical-radiation-physics-and-illuminating-engineering-part-10-photobiologically-effective-radiation-quantities-symbols-and-action-spectra/

ASTM Sunlight Reference:
https://www.astm.org/g0173-03r20.html

Black Body Radiation Calculations from Dr Wunderlich:
http://www.licht-im-terrarium.de/strahlung/schwarzkoerper

Primates in zoos with low D3:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36271125/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26805690

Reptile Lighting Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReptileLighting/?ref=share_group_link

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE:
www.tomaskas.co.uk
Instagram: @thetomaskas

Video Clips and Photos Used in Episode:

0:00 Coming Up
1:24 Guest Intro
3:56 Housekeeping
4:47 Ball Python Deep Dive GoFundMe
6:00 Welcome Thomas- Background & Tomaskas
25:45 What is Light? Photons, Wavelengths & Solar Spectrum
34:43 The UV Spectrum & Ultraviolet Index (UVI)
45:44 What is Lux? Lux vs. Lumen
51:29 Infrared & Color Temperature (Kelvin Scale)
1:03:20 SolarMeters - How do they work? 6.5 vs 6.2 SolarMeter?
1:32:36 How to Light a Reptile Enclosure?
1:54:24 How to Read an Iso Irradiance Chart (spread pattern diagram)
2:03:44 What is P.A.R? Different Halogen Lens Types
2:13:26 Replicating the Solar Spectrum
2:22:00 Closing Thoughts
2:24:45 Outro

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