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Arcadia Halogen Basking Spot
Regular price £59.99 Sale price £12.99Product Information
A fantastic source of heat and light for your reptile, these Arcadia Halogen Basking Spot lamps are great for secondary lighting in your vivarium or terrarium.
While they don't give off UV (essential for most, if not all reptiles), they do help heat the air and light their environment, allowing your reptile a better chance of maintaining their optimum body temperature for homeostasis and good metabolic function.
When used in conjunction with a light featuring a suitable UV output for your reptile, there are few comparable halogen basking lamps on the market - Arcadia are in the top of their class, and available at discounted prices from Swell Reptiles.
Product Characteristics:
- Excellent colour rendition.
- High light and Heat output.
- 3 times the life of tungsten filament lamps.
- 25 degree beam angle.
- Dimmable.
- Screw Fitting.
These bulbs will last three times longer than a conventional filament lamp.
Arcadia Ceramic Heater
Regular price £59.99 Sale price £14.99Infrared Ceramic Heaters from Arcadia provide you with a great heat source, without the light being emitted, which is ideal for night time heat. They are sleek in design and will go in any standard ceramic screw fitting holder.
Product Information
These beautifully designed ceramic bulbs are sleek and compact, measuring only 75mm diameter. They emit heat without the light, and are all standard E27 screw fitting, so will be perfect in any screw fitting ceramic holder.
As with all ceramic bulbs, these can get very hot, so they should always be used with a pulse thermostat to control the temperature and ensure both you and your reptiles are kept safe and secure. A pulse thermostat is designed to gentle pulse the power to the bulb to control the temperature to what you require.
These bulbs will provide heat, and can easily be used along side UVB lighting during the day to provide your reptile with everything it needs to be strong and healthy.
12 Months Warranty.
Arcadia Earth Mix ARID Substrate 10L
Regular price £19.99 Sale price £14.99EarthMix
- BIO-ACTIVE
- ARID SPECIES READY
- CUSTODIAN READY
A potent and eco-friendly, Bio-Active ready planting medium. It has been specifically formulated by the world’s leading reptile care and plant growth experts and contains organic compounds and worm manure to be easily assessable for plants of arid origin.
Arcadia Reptile EarthMix Arid has been ‘supercharged’ with safe, organic plant foods and minerals that are essential for the wellbeing of reptiles, amphibians, inverts and plants alike. 30% volcanic lava dust has also been added to the mix to not only aid with good drainage but to provide a higher mineral content for a full spectrum, ‘wild re-created’ substrate for animals from desert, or arid species.
EarthMix-Arid can be used in desert, woodland or arid vivariums without any additions being added to the mix. Its fine grade will allow for good Terrascaping and thus naturalistic enclosure design.
This Arid version of our popular substrate can be used in arid terrain for species like Bearded Dragons, Uromastyx lizards, horned lizards, Steppes runners and many more – perfect for those drier enclosures.
If it is Bio-Activity that you want with stunning plant growth then EarthMix Arid is the only option with guaranteed results.
Bio-Active Guidance and Safety
What Does Bioactive Mean?
Bio-Active is the term used to describe a live ecosystem. These systems have become extremely popular over the last few years and for good reason. They not only look better to the keeper but they provide enrichment, essential vitamin, mineral and gutflora benefits to the live occupants of the vivaria.
Bioactive systems will usually be live planted and these plants will need food, water, airflow and light to flourish. Using the Arcadia Jungle Dawn LED plant growth system will greatly increase light levels and PAR inside of your system and encourage plant growth.
A ‘clean-up crew’ of microfauna can be easily bought and added to the substrate. As a result, these small inverts will not only help to keep the soil turned and aerated but they will convert animal waste back into assessable plant food. We suggest that 3 tubs are added to a 2-4’ wide system on day one and one pot added per month after that.
Arcadia Reptile EarthMix has been tested extensively for safety, in fact, it provides essential full spectrum vitamins and minerals to reptiles if ingested in small amounts, as happens in the wild. We must look to the wild environments of the pets that we keep. If we provide heat and light including UVB to the wild level as part of the light and shade method the risk of impaction is removed.
Sick or very old animals should not be kept in these systems without the advice of a vet first.
Arcadia Earth Mix Substrate 10L
Regular price £19.99 Sale price £14.99EarthMix
- BIO-ACTIVE
- HIGH LEVELS OF PLANT GROWTH
- CUSTODIAN READY
Arcadia Reptile ‘EarthMix’ has been designed by experts to be the ultimate choice in safe and effective ‘Bio-Active’ vivarium and terrarium substrate.
EarthMix is a clean, safe to use, mineral rich Bio-Active ready substrate which, unlike other substrate available on the market, has no non-natural particules that could lead to impaction. Having the correct mix ‘ratios’ between ‘Mineral’ and ‘Organics’ helps to support the vital custodian species used in Bio-Active systems.
Arcadia Reptile EarthPro-EarthMis is full of ‘Organic Goodness’ and can be thought of as being ‘pre-fed’. This means that custodians can be added in from day one and will start to thrive. If you want to further support your custodians, you can use EarthPro-CustodianFuel.
EarthMix can be used with any species of Reptile, Amphibian and Invertebrate, are Custodian ready and will sustain incredible plant growth. It is so versatile and we have used it successfully with snakes, lizards, frogs and salamanders at Arcadia Reptile HQ.
It can be sprayed down regularly for those species requiring a little higher humidity, or you can just limit your misting to one area for species that come from drier environments, as this will create a small area of humidity should your reptile choose. We have seen lots of new behaviours shown by the reptiles we use it on that we haven’t seen before. For example, trinket snakes will make tunnels and burrow through it and eyed lizards will love digging in it. In this way it helps us to create enriching environments for our exotic pets.
Bio-Active Guidance and Safety
Bio-Active is the term used to describe a live ecosystem. These systems have become extremely popular over the last few years and for good reason. Bio-Active system not only look better to the keeper but they provide enrichment, essential vitamin, mineral and gutflora benefits to the live occupants of the vivaria.
Bio-Active systems will usually be live planted and these plants will need food, water, airflow and light to flourish. Using the Arcadia Jungle Dawn LED plant growth system will greatly increase light levels and PAR inside of your system and encourage plant growth.
A ‘clean-up crew’ of microfauna can be easily bought and added to the EarthMix. These small inverts will not only help to keep the soil turned and aerated but they will convert animal waste back into assessable plant food. We suggest that 3 tubs are added to a 2-4’ wide system on day one and one pot added per month after that.
Arcadia Reptile EarthMix has been tested extensively for safety, in fact it provides essential full spectrum vitamins and minerals to reptiles if ingested in small amounts, as happens in the wild. We must however look to the wild environments of the pets that we keep. If we provide heat and light including UVB to the wild level as part of the light and shade method the risk of impaction is removed.
Sick or very old animals should not be kept in these systems without the advice of a vet first.
Find out more about our range and the D3 cycle on our educational video page.
