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    So with my cuts rent set up I have a 10gal tank with an underground heater and, for lack of a better term, black light heat lamp, 50watt that keeps my tank at the hot end (80-88degrees).
    i feel bad that my baby bullfrog is always in the dark.

    if you have lighting what's everyone using?
    any tips?

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    You need to look how they live in a wild - By the big ponds, swamps under the bright sun = full spectrum lightening is the best. However, nobody tested scientifically on how different spectrum lights influence the development and in fact MBD in African bullfrogs is rare, but not impossible, people are getting good results without special lights, but with food supplementation.
    The best for you is to use proper supplements ( ca with vitD3, multivitamins) and full spectrum lights.
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    I have followed a training in France for Herpetology and breeding of Reptiles and Amphibians in captivity.
    Believe me, some UVB's can help a lot to avoid in MBD, because vit D3 can be toxic if you give to much.

    So, I would put a full spectrum light to simulate real day light (With a color temperature of 6500K, as fluorescent tube for aquarium for example), I would use a basking spot (tungstene) for heating (Basking spot creates 95% Infra red so only heating and have a color temperature of roughly 2000K...It means they only simulate light of end of the day....) and I would add some UVB's during some hours per week...All frogs, especially Pyxie frogs, receive a lot of UVB's during active period in nature.

    Just for information, a pet as reptile or amphibian, needs 150µW/cm² UVB's in order to use it in an efficient way for provitamin D3 synthetisis.

    During this training, we have measured with UVB meter some UVB's tubes and lampa sfrom different manufacturers, and believe me, they are not all equal
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    Wow!
    Thanks both of you!
    Great opinions and facts. I appreciate it and ill be switching as of now.

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