Red eyed tree frog housing+ lighting

[Krispy]

Wether my snakes, wtf's, retf's, firebellies(i call em bombers), beardies, or the rest of my long list of tank babies; they all have 1 65k full spectrum(grow) and 1uvb. Recently weve slowly been replacing the 65k's with led's. Take alot less power and last oh so long, but theyre mostly for the plants. The uvb is more preferance to how you keep your critters. I noticed brighter colors and better growth rates with my snakes. Im not brave enough to keep the frogs without uvb(and the wife would KILL me if anything happened to the frogs). Still, with the right supplements, it could be possible to nix the uvb.

More preferance then anything i guess.

[deranged chipmunk]

Wether my snakes, wtf's, retf's, firebellies(i call em bombers), beardies, or the rest of my long list of tank babies; they all have 1 65k full spectrum(grow) and 1uvb. Recently weve slowly been replacing the 65k's with led's. Take alot less power and last oh so long, but theyre mostly for the plants. The uvb is more preferance to how you keep your critters. I noticed brighter colors and better growth rates with my snakes. Im not brave enough to keep the frogs without uvb(and the wife would KILL me if anything happened to the frogs). Still, with the right supplements, it could be possible to nix the uvb.

More preferance then anything i guess.

There was a study done on the use of UV lighting on fbt's that mentioned that UV 'may' cause brighter coloration in them, but as far as UV lighting helping metabolize calcium, the study was inconclusive. The same was done with some species of darts. Although, the study on darts was more related to breeding and SLS. It was found that supplementing vitamin a was much more effective because the results from using UV were, you guessed it, inconclusive.

Of course, you'll get those folk that say 'I use UV lighting and don't have any issues.' Of course, as long as you supplement with calcium, you shouldn't. It's the old question, is lack of evidence, evidence? But that is a philosophical question, not a scientific one.


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