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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nurse Ratchet" data-source="post: 207427" data-attributes="member: 37967">Scientists believe T's may be able to see shades of blue, so I got a cheap daisy chain set of led plant lights with only white and red spectrum to give a boost to my live plants in the enclosures. They're on lowest setting from 0800- 1600. A. avic and GBB couldn't care less, both active day and night. T. vagans has been buried since before I bought them, so yet to be determined. T. albo is weird though. Spends her daylight time sitting on the pothos in the back directly under the light. These lights are several inches above enclosure and put out zero heat. Not sure if it's the light or the moisture at the base of the plant she likes. It gets a squirt of water at the base every other day. Water dish is clean and full.She came from a pet shop with super bright lights on from 0800-2100, so could be all that light affected her vision to the point of impairment. Who knows. Tom Moran keeps his T's on a day/night cycle as well and he seems both knowledgeable and to care about his T's.Maybe by simulating the day/night cycle, you're T's are acting on their natural instinct to be more active at night?  I think as long as your T's have access to a hide to get away from the light if they chose, the lights don't put out heat, and they still have a dark "night" time frame, the lights are fine.Mind you, this is all just humble opinion</blockquote>