as i mentioned in a previous video about some new acquisitions that i got thanks to some patreon uh
support i was able to get some brand new vivtech products that are some really cool led uvb bolts
these things are absolutely amazing they have a three-year lifetime warranty they have well they
have a three-year lifespan i should say these guys are really cool and i'm actually gonna do a setup
in a couple different videos of both of these of the sure sun of the three watts of the jungle
cover and of the three watt sure sun uh midday blaze this is basically for like tortoises your
high desk animals like cyclora where like the sun's beating down on them all day on that sand
green dragons euromastics aki monitors that sort of thing the jungle cover is more for
more crepuscular animals this is what i will be for the most part using for a lot of my snakes
and so today we're going to get started on setting up this cage and i'm going to monitor it over
the next couple days and watch the behavior of my animals change a little bit we're going to do the
northern pine snake shoshone with the sure sun in this 4x2 enclosure right here and we're gonna do
the midday blaze for remus our red accu monitor so just to show you guys a little bit so they're
number one has this absolutely really cool little packaging right here it shows as well as a lot of
other uv bulbs it has kind of the cool little ranges like that shows a little bit on the back
about these guys and here you go as i talked a little bit about some of the suggestions for
the different animals right there so what's really cool about these leds is that they made it so that
way they removed the uvc that's present in led bulbs which is why we haven't been able to use
them on reptiles really for a long time that's why we've been forced to use halogen and fluorescent
bulbs until also partnered up with a couple different people internationally they figured
out how to remove that dangerous harmful uv uvc that can negatively affect reptiles and have it so
just emits the proper wavelengths of uva and uvb for the appropriate species so it's really cool
nice little compact really cool bulb plastic coating so it's very difficult
for animals to break they actually have a video on vivtec of them hammering a nail into a board
so we're going to take here and it screws in just like any other regular register for outlets
like so and so in here this is a really cool little 4x2 enclosure so this is the northern
pine snake i'm going to go grab shoshone a second because she's moving up and getting
upgraded then i'm going to take another animal and it's we're going to we're going to do some
rotating and switching around so in here i have a more naturalistic setup for them so it's this four
by two enclosure don't mind that little tape in the background it's just snake proofing basically
because the red that little back register where the cable went was a little loose but i have
plenty of leaf cover for her to bury in because pine snakes love to do that as well as plenty of
hides we have this big cork tube there we have this really cool hide there that also gives a
branch uh platform for uh basking a big heavy-duty branch that's weighted down another one right here
we don't have natural pine in here but we have some really cool artificial ones and pine cones
as well as this to register the temp in here to keep an eye on that and i'm going to go get
shoshone and put her in here put some water in here ready to roll and then we're going to kind
of just keep an eye on her for the next couple days all right so as i said before we're going to
grab shoshone so shoshone is a northern pine snake it's one of the larger species of pituiophus and
that genus bull snakes being the largest and the northern pines probably coming up right in there
don't have a known locality on her but looking at her coloration she's probably from the northern
part of her range she looks pretty similar to her future boyfriend apache that we have
who is in fact an ocean county new jersey locale essentially picked this
girl up because she was being neglected from a place a guy got her out of there
and then his life situation changed and so we ended up getting shoshone um but so she's uh
she's always done very well in a 36 exoterra we tried to put her into a christmas tree tub and
she's stressed out she stopped eating got really uh really huffy and hissy so hopefully she's gonna
do really well in this where she has this big wide open glass area for her to hang out and
watch because that's kind of what she likes to do and we're gonna see how she does with this awesome
viv tech sure sun jungle cover bulb and so like i said we're going to pop her in here and see how
she does and we're going to watch her behavior and see what that vivtech bulb and having that
uva and uvb on her will change versus keeping her in a rack or something similar so here we go
come on in shoshone you got this i know you're gonna have fun in here
so there is in fact a reason why i chose shoshone to put the new
uh sure sun light bulb on her so pictuofus in general but pine snakes are very intelligent
very inquisitive animals and they're actually a little bit more active during the day so a
little bit more diurnal than a lot of other snake species that we uh in fact work with commonly and
she's in fact so intelligent inquisitive that a lot of times for this about two week period
that i had to watch and monitor her i would have to set up a tripod and time lapse her
moving across over periods of between four and 12 hours and we can see her over this first one
was about eight hours of her just kind of moving around the tank spending different amounts of time
underneath the uvb light now it's really dark right now that's her over there in
that hide mostly sleeping under that big log versus the hide underneath the uvb bulb but
she did start to exhibit some behaviors that i anticipated as well as i knew she would throw me
a couple curveballs so obviously snakes have been found to in fact seek out specifically uva and uvb
lighting separately and independently from heat where they would spend time
underneath the heat to warm them up to get their metabolisms going so they can start
cruising around looking for food or doing other snake things that they do as well as they start
to hang out under that light for their required ultraviolet needs and that's in fact what she did
other than every single time when i would come over and as you can see immediately just check
me out wondering what i was doing she would spend a lot of time cruising in and around the light
but she wouldn't necessarily spend a lot of time directly on there she never fully bass like you
would see a lizard or even some snakes like a garter snake she never completely fully bassed
out on top of her hide directly under that bulb and it's a lower wattage one it doesn't put out
as much as everything so this was the uh sure sun jungle cover so this is the one that's good for a
lot of animals that cryptic basque have a lot of dilution between the canopy and leaves and things
like that this was after about five six days of her checking things out getting used to the thing
to where i finally saw her for a prolonged period of partial basking so this is her right underneath
the light but not for an extended period of time this was about 20 minutes or so not her full body
and never once but overall i've noticed that her uh behavior has changed to where she's very active
during certain periods where we would see activity in wild snakes during certain periods of time so
early in the morning um into the early evening and then right at night is when she's most active and
the rest of time she spends typically giving more wild behaviors than we would see in say
a animal that is in captivity where they're mostly active at night versus not so i absolutely enjoyed
trying this out with shoshonee so if anyone has any questions want to check that out you can go
click the link down in my bio and don't forget to use my affiliate code JZREPS322 for a discount
offer on those bulbs hope you're having a great day and we will check you next time