Posted by:
emysbreeder
at Sun Nov 29 02:01:00 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by emysbreeder ]
What would be a good UV light for baby Mt.Tortoises. I have supected eye damage from uv lights in the past. In nature they live in very dark forest with little Sun exsposure. What I do now is filter the light with plants or pegboard and other things to brake up or filter the light and limit the exsposure to a few hours. My concern is if they are getting what they need with a 2.2 or should I use a 5.0 or more, the way I am doing it. Some eye damage is only suspected and slight and I also suspect the ones that just dont thrive "might" be because of this. I do know that there IS damage of a high degree with long hours of UV. It could also just be a young baby's eyes that are at risk. The UV is of cource being used very close to the animal as required by the makers of the lights. I am able to keep them on a screen porch with natural but limited UV from three weeks old until about late Nov.(this has helped a lot in many ways) Any other tripple canapee deep forest tortoise keepers experence this concern. Always trying to improve to the point of perfection. Vic
[ Hide Replies ]
|
RE: What UVB bulbs do you use? - emysbreeder, Sun Nov 29 02:01:00 2009 