Lighting

[grecaaale]

Currently i do not have a hood or light source for my axolotls, besides my dorm light, i would keep it this way but during the summer my ex girlfriend must take them, and she has cats that like to drink and swim in tanks, so i want to get a hood lamp for them, my ex-girlfriend wants to get a black light for the hood. I have looked some stuff up and i have seen that someone said that this is not good, but this is from the same person on all the websites. So is a black light good or bad? and if it is bad what kind of bulb should i get for them?

 

[AXOLOTLUS]

Lighting is not required for axolotls, lighting is purely for display purposes.

If you have any other questions, please refer to this article: Axolotl Housing

 

[morphyrichards]

There are some benefits to lighting other than just display. Lighting also allows plants and algae to grow which is very helpful for maintaining good water quality.

Although, as I understand it, black light means ultraviolet light?

The only people I know of who use these have genetically modified axies which glow under UV, and even then they only turn them on rarely.

I'd reccomend ordinary white light.