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I was just wondering if I should turn the dial on my timer foward an hour. My lizards are accustomed to the lights turning ... |
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04-03-2006, 12:28 AM
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Should Day-light Savings Apply to Reptiles?
Hi,
I was just wondering if I should turn the dial on my timer foward an hour. My lizards are accustomed to the lights turning on at 9 and turning off at 9. Today they turned on at 10 and turned off at 10. Should I make it so they continue to turn on and off at 9? That is, should my lizards also lose an hour?
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04-03-2006, 12:29 AM
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Its applying to my herps, but only cause of feeding times and such...
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04-03-2006, 09:25 AM
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Don't you have different photo periods for summer and winter?
Mine were also on 12/12 but now I've given them an extra hour of day and within a couple of months I will add another day hour for summer's 14/10 photoperiod.
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04-03-2006, 09:27 AM
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Hello,
I changed my timers. lol I did it for selfish reasons though. My herps get up when I get up and each are set for 7am.
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04-03-2006, 10:45 AM
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Yes I am with Rich. I adjust the timer for selfish reasons. When I get up,...so do they. And I run a basic 14 on and 10 off schedule all year long.
But I am not trying to breed them.
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04-03-2006, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rbl
Don't you have different photo periods for summer and winter?
Mine were also on 12/12 but now I've given them an extra hour of day and within a couple of months I will add another day hour for summer's 14/10 photoperiod.
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I've only had my herps for a few months, so I don't have any experience with photo periods or such. Is that important only if I'm breeding? My herps are captive bred, so they aren't accustomed to photoperiods.
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My babies:
1.1.0 Chinese Water Dragons (Miyagi, Karamu)
0.0.1 Ball Python (Squid)
0.0.1 Chilean Rose-haired Tarantula (Venom)
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1.0.0 Black Cat (Felix)
1.0.0 Siamese-Mix Cat (Simon)
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04-03-2006, 03:56 PM
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Mine are turned on when I get up and turned off before bed time. Sean's are on a different schedule, he turns his on when he gets up and off when he goes to bed (about an hour difference).
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04-03-2006, 08:04 PM
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Every living animal is accustomed to photo periods. The sun rises, it's day. The sun sets, it's night. Both have a certain amount of time that is the same every cycle, I mean, everyday the day time is 12h long and doesn't vary.
You should set a photo period for your animals instead of letting them rely on your schedules.
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04-03-2006, 10:31 PM
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Dundee and all the rest live on the same time as the humans in the house.
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04-03-2006, 11:15 PM
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I just put the timers in the tanks to let each herp decide,,,,funny....none of em touched it, I guess daylight savings applies to just us humans. Seriously though,,,we base our timers on our schedule, so we did change them.
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