Why do you hope they add something over non-UV bulbs????? Because they cost more?



See this is the part I cannot figure out. I too would hope they had a added benefit, to support their extra cost. But they don't, At least over 118 complete generations of monitors.



You do understand, the very few studies done, were done with only a very few individual reptiles, and almost no monitors.(compared to 118 generations)



Basically speaking, UV bulbs were recomended in the past when there was very little success with monitors. They were recomended in the hope they would aid in success. The problem is, they do not play a part in current successful husbandry. As in, they didn't add anything, in fact, it seems they do not compete at all.



Just for fun, a few years ago, we had this same discussion, so out of curiousity, I decided to see what it would have cost me to run UV lites instead of regular bulbs. First, I was successful right of the bat, before I knew what you were suppose to do with monitors. So I did not know I should have used UV bulbs. So I just used what was in the cages.



Anyway, if you used the bulbs as recomended(go by their replacement time) I just refigured it out and it would have been $1,044,000.00 in UV bulbs.



Hmmmmmmmm They surely should have done something realllllllly better, but they didn't.



The reality is, I did not use them, and have done far better then most. I have also bred many "first" world and U.S breedings. All without UV bulbs.



So yea, you go on hoping, and when you figure out what it is, please fill me in. Cheers

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