The elevated UVB light during the summer where the suns equator is facing more closely toward the sun in the northern equator contributes to heat intensity.

This is the UV index. The higher level of UVB will not immediately kill a dragon.

If you had a a UVB florescent light that emitted high levels say over 350nano meters... the animal would likely incur eye damage before anything else.

The combination of elevated UVB and UVA light (heat index/heat intensity) is what killed the dragon.

The shade blocks the UVA/UVB light and heat intensity. The shade only drops the temp by at most ten degrees.

It was not the temperature but heat index/intensity. Brought on by the uva/uvb not the temperature itself.


I guarantee my ambient temps run just as high if not higher then the temps were outside on that occasion.

Get a heat index 6.5 Solar-meter and it measures the light intensity. That is what kills.

Not the heat alone.

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