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Has anyone studied what kind of plastics work best for covering a greenhouse housing chameleons? The Idea being to not filter out uvb light. Ive found some materials that look promising but was wondering if anyone has done any studies that they would be willing to share?

As far as I know there is no such material but keep searching.The bad thing is that whatever you find you will never be sure so a good idea is to use a uv meter just to be sure..

I guess nobody is interested or mabey everyone is busy. This forum is pretty dead. If nobody has done any testing with uva and uvb lighting Ill just say that from what ive found your uvb lights are being blocked 50 percent or more by screen inclosures. A uvb repti bulb puts out about 20uw/cm2 brand new and have heard reports that these lights are deteriorating very rapidly. That means if your light is putting out only 10uW/cm2 your screen is reducing it to 5uW/cm2 and thats only if your animal is basking in the perfect spot. Someone correct me if im wrong but it seems to me we are being scammed at the expence of our animals health. I will conduct some of my own studies but in the meantime I think my animals will bask outside as much as possible. By the way there is a special plexiglass that only filters out 20 percent or less uvb. It may be even beter than that.

Hi,indeed this forum is not as active as you might wanted it to be but the sure thing is that you will get a decent answear as soon as someone sees your question.There are some really expierienced people over here that helped me a lot in the past,just give it some time