UVB lighting??

[1beataway]

Even after Kurt telling me that frogs don't need UV lights, I find it so hard to tell my customers that they don't need to get UV lights for their new frogs.

Personally, I enjoy how every night when I turn my White's light off, they immediately wake up and go into action. I'm not sure how this would be different if they had no light.

[Kurt]

Basically it would be the same. Most of my frogs do not have over head lights and they still sleep during, awakening only after the lights are out.

[John]

The majority of tree frogs in captivity are nocturnal. They don't get exposed to sunlight anyhow. This includes White's Tree Frogs. If you think just because your tree frog sleeps on a branch that receives light during the day that they do that in the wild, all the tree frogs would be dead from dessication. Anyone who has done any field work with nocturnal tree frogs can tell you that they are extremely difficult to find during the day and one place you don't look is branches exposed to sunlight.

[1beataway]

I guess what you two say makes sense. I think it's partly because the importance of UV lights for all reptiles and amphibians was one of the "basics" I learned at my job, and it's a little hard to completely forget that rule. My White's will still get the light though, for the plants if nothing else.

Field work with frogs sounds like so much fun, btw.