Check out this thread on UV:
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=697399,697399
I find this very interesting. Anyways...Just though I'd throw it up here.
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Not Exactly sure how this correlates....but:
JLExotics
Jan 26, 2005 01:30 PM
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attentiveear
Jan 28, 2005 07:21 PM
I have been researching this very subject for the last 5 yrs. plus..... However, mine focused on Calcium with Vit. D3 powder, versus the UVB Bulbs. I have mostly gone without UVB bulbs and have utilized Rep-Cal w/ Vit. D3 powder (Pink label).
I have had great success in both uros, beardies, collards, and of course numerous pet tegus. :0). I have not witnessed any MBD (Metabolic Bone Disease) whatsoever. Color variances also have been nonexistant. I have also posed this question to the San Diego zoo herpatologists dealing with tegus, though have not
received a response yet..........it has not been long though.
The one aspect with the San Diego, they are able to utilize the Calf. sunshine. :0) Here in Mich., we only have access in the summer. :0)
Greg
