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BDlvr
at Wed Sep 30 05:11:38 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BDlvr ]
The dietary D3 is used to replace the D3 synthesized by their bodies when exposed to UVB light. The UVB bulbs including MVB do a pitiful job of replacing the amount of UVB put out by natural sunlight. Dragons that get a significant amount of natural unfiltered sunlight do not need additional D3. Dragons kept indoors should be supplemented. Whether the dragons can actually use dietary D3 is still debated. But, over supplementation is more of an urban legend than fact. I live in NJ and when my dragons are outside in the spring/summer I don't use D3. But when they are indoors I am a D3 believer. This is just my opinion, but I've never heard of a problem caused by over supplementation of D3, and I think better safe than sorry when it comes to not supplementing.
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