I agree. All the animals that I take care of at my work are way more active and eat more when we have UV on them. We have UV on all the baby beadeds, uros, frilled dragons, tegus, iguanas, water dragons, basilisks, frogs, and any sick animal, and even an african grey parrot. When we first opened up, we were losing a lot of these particular creatures (not the parrot, the reptiles!), and when we began putting uv on them, the fatality rate dropped very noticably. I agree that not all reptiles need uv, like leopard gecks, cresteds, snakes, and adult reptiles. Young growing herps I truely believe, no matter what someone in a lab says, benifit big time from having uv light. It could mostly be all psycological with some physical benifits. I can, without knowing anything about tests and meters say that lizards under uv eat more, gain weight quicker, have more energy, brighter color development, get sick less, and recover from illness quicker. I have learned so much about herps by having hands on experience caring for them, then what I have read out of any book. That it what is great about this forum, that someone can ask a question and get answers form people who know what they are talking about from being there before, not just getting the info out of a book. This forum rocks!!
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