One Response to “can I use a reading lamp for heating a tortoises enclosure?”

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   AlexPalmer
   

   26. Aug, 2010

   You potentially could during warmer temperatures, but when the temperatures in the winter hit anywhere below 65, you would then need a special heating lamp. While reading lamps are meant to give off light with heat being a byproduct, heating lamps are meant to give off heat with light as a byproduct.