Is too much light bad fro Carpets?

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Hello All, I'll be getting my first carpet (Female Jag) in a month or so, and I'm busily arranging a nice enclosure for her. Right now I'm thinking I'll use an 18"x18"x36" aquarium and begin building a nice large viv for her for when she gets larger.

Anyway, this aquarium is one I had set up for fish some years ago, and I already have a stand, canopy, lights, and so on for it. The lights however are quite bright fluorescent tubes. I'm wondering if I should be figuring something else out for lighting (will bright lighting cause undue stress to the snake?). Is there a rule of thumb to use like watts per gallon or lumens per cubic foot or [...?].