During the summer months you should provide your bearded dragon with a minimum of 14 16 hours of daytime light and uv exposure and 8 10 hours of nighttime exposure.
Bearded dragon uv light at night.
Bearded dragons do not need a source of uva or uvb at night.
Another reason that people tend to run lights at night is to keep the temperate up.
You shouldn t worry about your vivarium s night temperature being colder than during the day but you still mustn t let it get too cold.
During the winter months the light cycle should be decreased to 10 12 hours of daytime light and uv exposure and 12 14 hours of nighttime exposure.
As such you ll want to turn both their heat lamp and uvb off at night.
Simply put you re bearded dragon s tank shouldn t have any lights running at night.
If you tank temperature falls into the 60 s at night invest in a ceramic heat emitter instead of running the lights 24 7.
The simple answer to that question is it depends how warm your house is.
A reptile like a bearded dragon which is native to the baking hot aussie bush worships the sun during the day.
Instead the basic setup is 12 hours on 12 hours off for both uvb and the basking spot light bulb.