Here are a series of pics, its very small series, I took them today.

Heres a pic of an ackie hatching. Its parents were raised here with incandesent bulbs. You will see those bulbs in the following pics. Also, its parents, parents, and its parents parents parents parents. Ok there are a few more parents to add, but you get the point. Also of interest is, all those parents were raised in the SAME cages with the same lites and even the same cage furniture. Now I sound pitiful. hahahahahahahaha but its true. Heres the ackie hatching.


Heres a pic of a four day old red ackie taking on what appears to be a giant cricket. hahahahahaha Its many generations of its parents were raised in these cages.


Heres a hatchling V.gilleni, its a twin, the other twin is under the boards with three or four gilleni/caudolineatus. Both the gilleni parents and caudolineatus parents were raised in these cages for many generations.

Heres a threeway gouldi complex cross. Yes both the crosses parents and the pure gouldi,argus,flavirufus, parents were raised here in THESE cages with these lites.

Heres a lacie under a bell shaped incandesent, she laid eggs two days ago. And yes here parents and their parents and their parents were raised in the same cages as the other babies and in these very cages, with the same lites and sorry to say, same boards.


Please do not get mad at me for saying you do not need UV lites. Get mad at these monitors and generations of their parents. And yes, there are far far far more if you want.

Which leads me back to this, you get mad at me for bringing this up. What do you expect me to do? You should really be made at those that duped you into believing UV bulbs are "necessary".

As I mentions, I do not believe anyone of those folks or all of folks put together has achieved the results of even one of these pics(the generations the pic represents)

With that in mind, why do you believe them? Please I am not being mean, I am very curious. People somehow take a paper as gospel when the paper really contained almost no material, just a lot of words and a lot of math, and methods and materials, but no appliable results. The hope of this forum is to find appliable methods that express real results. And sir, that is why those papers are of little good. If those papers resulted in something that showed(resulted in) real hard results, then I would be the first to call those papers great. But if they are only for other biologist to converse over. Then they are totally worthless here. That is of no offense to the authors. Its more about you taking papers out of context.

The context of this forum is to result in the above pics or simple a healthy pet monitor.

I hope your study will result in appliable results. Thanks

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