I see the post you made was not written by yourself. Now you said the study was a 5 year program with two groups. Who did this you or Dr. G?

I'd rather hear what his findings are from him then your interpritation of what his findings are.

Example would be what Fr has asked why does he then have success without it? I tried to talk about that a bit with my post asking what about diet.

As in the paper you reffered to in your post it says "some must get vitamin D3 from an ultra-Violet (UV) source instead of the diet." Key words there Some, and Diet.

Then I see it says "A female crocodile monitor (Varanus salvador) had no Ultraviolet (UV) light source or dietary vitamin D3 supplementation for several years." Again key words NO dietary Vit D3 for several years.

Ok now it says they then were exposed to UV and the D3 levels climbed. "There were other significant improvements in this animal condition. A strong improvement occurred in the animal appetite to include only balanced prey items, which had not been previously possible."

So you had some monitors not getting UV or dietary D3. You then gave it Uv and it increased the vitD3, then it was offered balanced prey items. Improvements where seen and noted.

Well I must say I agree that it has been known for along time that Vit D3 is needed in reptiles, it is also known that a source of that is UV another being diet. So please tell me what is new with this study? And how it shows UV to be needed by monitors clearly it shows it can be used as a tool but so can diet or suppliments.

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