Benefits of Full Spectrum Lighting

[liz]

Good for Myrtle, you listen to that bird.

How can I not listen. The girl baby blabbers constantly in my left year. I think I have actually lost some hearing in that ear. She also responds to Rambo's contact call while on my left shoulder.

I sometimes wear an ear plug in the ear that my Pod screams in while I am trying to vacume or do laundry... He doesnt like when I am moving around.

Myrtle thinks my ear is her toy. She would have that plug out in a heart beat.

[Wolf]

I am not going to chance it, but with Kiki or even Skeeter, if I were to put an earplug in my ear, I think we would be calling me Vincent van Wolf, if you catch my drift.

[Pajarita]

Yes, sennies don't like anything 'strange' next to our faces - Zoey is the sweetest thing with me, never biting, never nipping, never even holding on too hard but let me put a phone to my ear and she goes into combat mood.

[Wolf]

:lol: Yes, sennies don't like anything 'strange' next to our faces - Zoey is the sweetest thing with me, never biting, never nipping, never even holding on too hard but let me put a phone to my ear and she goes into combat mood.

Kiki doesn't care about the phone one way or the other. I think that since she knows that Kookooloo goes ballistic if I even touch a phone or a remote that she will just let her deal with me over them.

[Pajarita]

Smart cookie! Why bother when a subordinate can do it for you?!

[Wolf]

Smart cookie! Why bother when a subordinate can do it for you?!

Or it could be that since they are rivals for my attention, that she will allow these things since Kookooloo doesn't allow them.

[Pajarita]

I would not be surprised if that is the case, they are wily little things!

[nerdybird]

I have some questions about these bulbs. I've looked at the links and looked over the advice here.

Do you use these lights as your main light source inside? As in, are there quality lights I can replace my current lights with? Looking at one of the links, the bulbs are 5500 Ktemp, which is supposed to mimic mid-day sun; that seems too bright for constant use. Is there a lower Ktemp that might be better? Or shoud they only be used for small amounts of time during the day?

My apartment is completely out of direct sunlight. I have a window but it is a few feet from another building.

In my studio apartment, I will use these bulbs in floor lamps. I am shopping for new lamps currently, I hope to get th kind that point the light upward at the ceiling; will these work with some of these types of full-spectrum lights?

[Wolf]

To start with the K Temp is only a part of the equation, the rest of it is the Cri must be 94 or above and the bulb needs to produce both UVA and UVB . I think that probably the CRI may be more important than the K Temp, but certainly not less important. A birds eyes are very sensitive, I mean it is almost like we are color blind in comparison to them. Then I turn them on just after the sun comes up and turn them off about 2 hours before dusk.
Actually they provide wonderful light if you need really good lighting and if the color is important, but if all you are after is just a little light to walk about by or something of that nature where you don't kneed good lighting I would go with LED or CFL lights in the 20 to 25 watt range.
My full spectrum is aimed in the direction of my birds because of the lamp I have it in. I would think that pointing it up towards the ceiling would defeat its purpose as I think it needs to shine on them.

[Pajarita]

I use fluorescent tubes in a ceiling fixture (it's a shop light so the tubes light shines down without any type of glass, plastic, cover or anything in between them and the birds) placed in the middle of the room and turn them on once the sky is completely lit and the sun is out and off when the sun is halfway down to the horizon. I don't really find the light too bright or too anything. It's wonderful light, actually, and it makes me feel better, too (it's always a bright spring day in the birdroom).