UVA UVB Reptile Light 5.0, Tropical UVB 100 Compact Fluorescent Lamp 15W

I'm not sure if 7 months is a good lifespan for these bulbs or not. Maybe someone else would know. Ordering our second one today. Not sure what to rate it. It was great while it lasted??!!! 😆 Only rated 3 because I have no idea if 7 months is good or bad. My household bulbs last for years. No other experience to go by.

I saw some complaints that it doesn’t last, well I haven’t had it long enough, I think. I have had it for a couple weeks, I use it just during the day. I have a green anole lizard that snuck into my home somehow. She was living on one plant and kind of staying there. I was feeding her 2 small crickets per day. Very tiny lizard, the smallest one I saw since these things started appearing in my yard and around the house. But she left the house at one point, then a few days later came in literally through my front door like a person, so I allowed it, and she found her way back upstairs to the same plant. But when she returned she wouldn’t eat any crickets, and was acting super afraid of me, when before she had started eating the cricket right out of the tongs I held. I was worried bc she seemed to be getting even tinier. I read these lights could help with appetite. Since I have no cage I bought a simple lamp screw thing with an on/off switch and screwed this light into an outlet that just happens to be by the plant she was living on. After about a week she just ate two huge crickets, and I’ve been seeing her out more getting sun and hanging around the light.

Thought this bulb burned out quickly but ended up being a bad timer. We just bought this replacement for another bulb of the same brand that lasted 4 years. We've been pleased with shipping and bulb life.

This bulb lasts quite a while compared to the other brands we have tried! Better bang for your buck. Gives just the right stuff for our turtle!

So far so good. Nice, bright UVB light. No complaints.