Whats the difference between a WIDE Spectrum and a FULL Spectrum light?
Ahhhh….welcome to the Madison Avenue and the non-regulated pet product industry where accuracy never gets in the way of making product claims! Because there are no truth-in-advertising regulations covering pet products, manufacturers can be as misleading as they like. Like the ‘iguana approved’ reptile bark and litter products: keep your iguana on them and your iguana will be facing impactions, surgery, even death. Manufacturers and pet stores don’t care: by the time that happens, they’ve already made their money off you. It used to be that ‘full spectrum’ lighting meant lights which produced both ultraviolet B, ultraviolet A and the full visible spectrum as well infrared heat. Once incandescent manufacturers figured out that people were being told to look for ‘full spectrum’ lighting, they started to market their wide spectrum incandescent lights (producing some, but not all of the visible wavelengths and no ultraviolet wavelengths) with the words ‘full spectrum’ in the ads and on p
