Arcadia ShadeDweller Arboreal Pro T5 UVB Kit, 8 Watt – 2.4% UVB

Arcadia ShadeDweller Arboreal Pro T5 UVB 8w – 2.4% UVB | Complete Lighting Kit for Crepuscular Species

The Arcadia ProT5 ShadeDweller Arboreal 2.4% UVB Kit is the ideal solution for providing gentle full spectrum UVB lighting for arboreal and climbing species.

The ShadeDweller Arboreal kit arrives complete with high quality electronics, a highly effective and removable reflector and a 2.4% UVB, 12% UVA T5 ShadeDweller Aboreal Lamp.

The 2.4% UVB, 12% UVA high CRI ShadeDweller Arboreal lamp provides assurance that you are providing a safe and effective UV Index even if your animal travels high into its environment.

The ProT5 reflector provides a mid width flood of light which is perfect for providing an easy to measure basking area for shade dwelling species.

UV energy is vital for our animals but we must be sure that we do not provide UV Indexes that are higher than nature has provided.

You should always provide access to UV energy over an area that covers the animals whole body, from nose to vent in lizards and the whole snake whilst coiled.,

This basking zone should be matched with equal to or greater access to graduated shade vertically or horizontally or both. In this way the animal can travel to energise under the lamp and self regulate its exposure naturally.

The Kits sleek design and specially curved reflector will ensure that you use less space but project as much light forward as possible.

The Arcadia ProT5 ShadeDweller Arboreal Kit also arrives with a free link cable which allows multiple units (up to 10) to be powered from a suitable single power source.

Pair the ShadeDweller Arboreal with Arcadia Jungle Dawn LED Bars for increased visible light and high PAR levels which will ensure fantastic plant growth.

The ShadeDweller Arboreal ProT5 is equipped with a highly functional but removable curved reflector that ensures a UV rich basking area directly beneath the unit.

This is an easy to use professional UV lighting kit can be easily fitted into a wooden vivarium with the fitting kit that is included, or, it can placed above the mesh of a glass vivarium.  It is designed to provide the ideal UVI and allowing inhabitants to benefit in full from activated colour vision and the naturally effective D3 cycle.

ShadeDweller Arboreal ProT5 is fast start and ‘flicker-free’. The reflector is also easy to remove and clean.

ShadeDweller Arboreal is perfect for shade dwelling species such as Crested Geckos and those species that fall into Ferguson zones 1-2, depending on fitting height, climbing ability and requiring a smaller area of UV energy.

Provide The Correct Levels Of UVB

The ProT5 reflector provides a fluid mid-width flood of light and is perfect for providing an easy to measure basking area for any species. However, for ‘shade dwelling’ species such as crested geckos, smaller climbing snakes and amphibians that can easily move upwards close towards the lamp increased energy is found. UV energy is vital of course, but we must be sure that we do not provide UV Indexes that are higher than nature has provided a ‘use for’ and a ‘level of protection against’.

ShadeDwellerPro-Arboreal has been designed to be safe and effective to use over standard meshed-topped vivariums and inside other vivariums where planting/decoration is provided to a close distance to the lamp. This kit will provide the ideal UVI and allow inhabitants to benefit in full from activated colour vision and the natural effective D3 cycle safely. Using our tried and tested 2.4% UV-B, 12% UV-A high CRI ShadeDweller-Arboreal lamp you can be sure of providing a safe and effective UV Index even if the animal travels high into its environment close to the lamp.

Allow Your Reptile To Self Regulate

We should always provide access to UV energy over an area that covers at least the animals whole body, from nose to vent in lizards and the whole snake whilst coiled, of course this basking zone should be matched with equal to or greater access to graduated shade vertically or horizontally or both. In this way the animal can travel to energise under the lamp and self-regulate its exposure naturally.

Heavy planting with broadleaf plants will create leaf-scatter patterns of shade and offer good protection, as such if the enclosure is heavily planted and there is some distance between basking and the lamp the ShadeDweller 7% lamp maybe more suitable for achieving optimal UVI per species, please use our free lighting guide to check optimal UVI for your species.

The ideal solution for providing gentle full-spectrum+UV-B lighting for arboreal and climbing species living within enclosures where planting/decoration is provided directly up to the mesh and within those that do not use heavy planting.

Ferguson Zones

ShadeDwellerPro-Arboreal is perfect for shade dwelling species such as Crested Geckos and those species that fall into Ferguson zones 1-2, depending on the distance to basking , climbing ability and require a smaller area of UV energy. For these species when living in larger enclosures and where planting/decoration does not allow open basking very close to the lamp the ShadeDwellerPro 7% lamp would be the correct option at 10-12” in free air or 6-8” when used over a mesh (keep in mind also that black mesh reduces light flow more than stainless. It is always best to check actual energy with a Solarmeter 6.5 index meter).

Arcadia ProT5 UVB ShadeDweller Arboreal.

Ultra Violet Index

UVI measurements have been measured at the very centre of the strongest point using a solar meter 6.5.

Minimum distance from the lamp to the reptile is 75mm/3”

Create Bespoke Systems

Pair ShadeDwellerPro or ShadeDwellerPro-Arboreal with Genuine Arcadia Reptile Jungle Dawn LED Bar for increased visible light and high PAR levels which will ensure fantastic plant growth. ShadeDweller, ProT5 and JungleDawn-LED Bar should be provided alongside a stat controlled heat source.

Please see Arcadia Reptile SolarBaskingFlood, Halogen Floods and DHP with our Clamp lamp range for more information.