I keep all of mine with quite large amounts of UVA and UVB booming down on them, the amount proportional to that of the habitat they come from. As all of mine are Australian and most are desert species, they would certainly be used to plenty of UV in the wild. Whether or not the definately need it is for physiological reasons is one thing but I noticed that the animals certainly seem more alert with lots of UV. Also, I've noticed the colours can be sharper with lots of UV, wild caught animals seem to fade quite a bit when deprived of UV. I give most of the snakes access to UV light as well for the same reasons.



Cheers

Bryan
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Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry

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Australian Venom Research Unit,

University of Melbourne

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Population and Evolutionary Genetics Unit,

Museum Victoria

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http://www.venomdoc.com

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• Sort of Related to monitors...thought this would be a better place to ask: - JLExotics, Tue Jan 25 18:00:35 2005
• RE: Sort of Related to monitors...thought this would be a better place to ask: - BGF, Tue Jan 25 19:19:06 2005
• RE: About colour and varanids - FR, Tue Jan 25 22:21:23 2005
• Dr. Bryan, I love UV too! - CornSnakeBabe, Sun Feb 6 21:10:38 2005
• RE: Sort of Related to monitors...thought this would be a better place to ask: - viperbitex, Sat Feb 12 12:20:47 2005
• RE: Sort of Related to monitors...thought this would be a better place to ask: - LizardMom, Tue Jan 25 20:12:26 2005
• RE: Sort of Related to monitors...thought this would be a better place to ask: - JLExotics, Tue Jan 25 22:09:45 2005
• Take a look at the list of animals, that bayoubeasts kep.. - SHvar, Tue Jan 25 22:52:18 2005
• RE: Take a look at the list of animals, that bayoubeasts kep.. - ToR038505, Wed Jan 26 01:05:40 2005
• You dont expose an animal to one of these bulbs.. - SHvar, Wed Jan 26 19:18:04 2005
• uv light - joeysgreen, Wed Jan 26 02:58:16 2005
• RE: About what works, that is sort of really really funny - FR, Wed Jan 26 10:28:03 2005
• RE: About what works, that is sort of really really funny - BGF, Wed Jan 26 16:10:25 2005
• RE: Lets look at this another way - FR, Wed Jan 26 17:01:57 2005
• That makes sense.... - -ryan-, Wed Jan 26 17:39:50 2005
• RE: How did you do it? - jobi, Wed Jan 26 16:19:23 2005
• RE: How did you do it? - FR, Wed Jan 26 16:36:31 2005
• RE: How did you do it? - LizardMom, Wed Jan 26 21:21:02 2005
• RE: Mom are you trying to get me in trouble. - FR, Wed Jan 26 22:35:09 2005
• RE: Mom are you trying to get me in trouble. - -ryan-, Thu Jan 27 21:55:33 2005
• Hey John! About tegu lighting... - CornSnakeBabe, Mon Jan 31 21:58:36 2005