A five year study would indeed be wonderful.

How are you going to test UV and what controls are you using?

Also, what standards are you going to use?

For instance, one of the flaws in the original study is there not not progress in the monitors. Its normal these days for monitors to achieve life events. That is, hatch, mature, reproduce, and over and over.

The reason I say that is, to progress thru lifes normal events does indeed require a range of Calicum requirement.

As I mentioned, we have progressed thru many generations of many species without the need to add UV bulbs for indoor monitors. To add to that in lite of Jodys comments, with medium to larger monitor species we do not suppliment in any way.

One little point about the past discussion, you seem to get mad at me for going against what other varanid authors had said or written. You are misguided doing that. You should either be mad at my monitors, as they are the ones that are actually doing it. Or you should be mad at those authors, biologist, for not investigating all or at least over approaches. You see, its they was say you need UV bulbs. Not me or my monitors

I wish you all the luck in your project and look forward to reading it. Cheers

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