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RE: To give UV light or to provide dietary D3....a follow up

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Posted by: Ingo at Sat Jan 29 09:33:53 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Ingo ]  
   

I agree,

I keep P.m. grandis with virtually no UVB since 20 years and several generations.
To my experience you have to supplement D3 if you use commercially available UVB Bulbs or not.
An a balanced supplementation fully suffices.
Much mor eimportant is the overall ligth intensity.
IMHO every keeper of diurnal lizards should have a luxmeter and monitor light intensities in his enclosures.
For grandis I recommend 20000-40000 Lux at the basking area. To reach this, 70 W metal halides (5-6000K) with a spot reflektor suffice.

Ci@o

Ingo
(also author of a book on day gex

   

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