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Originally Posted by B_Aller
To me the question is..Does the effort and money spent on these bulbs ACTUALLY translate into healthier animals. We're still talking man made UV bulbs that only provide a tiny fraction of the beneficial elements of the sun.
To me there are more important factors in the lives of most captives. I personally would rather spend my money and time providing larger more useful enclosures than dropping hundreds or thousands a year on questionable bulbs.
I don't deny that the animals obviously have evolved to utilize UV, for me, I have not seen positive results from these bulbs, only from better overall conditions for the animals. The problem is that many will slap a bulb in a shite enclosure and feel like they have it covered. Again, none of the long term breeders that I hang with bother to use any of these bulbs, yet are more successful overall than those who do use them.
I've used many of the available UV bulbs and have never seen any noticeable difference in my animals health, coloration, appetite or behavior, so I stopped worrying or thinking about them long ago. Just my 2 cents.
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But if you are giving the correct husbandry ... And you have a large enclosure ...
And If these bulbs give any benefit then why not .....
They are not a miracle cure for everything no but any advantage is an advantage ...
We all knw that many monitors will breed in a tiny rub but this does not make them healthy not saying a UVB or UVA bulb will but it will help .... As will a large enclosure so if you can provide both for the better keepers with already good husbandry is this not something you want to add as a bonus to your captive animals .... ?
IMO I feel your statement to be old school and becoming out dated ... Just saying its sounds like you don't want to see the positives rather than them not being there
If it has but one advantage ... Why not have it ?
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