UVB lighting Fire bellied toads!!!

[alane]

I kind of think that the "reptisun 10.0" light is a little severe for my application. But it's all my local store had.

The aqueon deluxe hood is flexible enough for me to insert something in between the light and the tank. I put a paper towel in there. The fluorescence in the tank is still there but it appears to be half of what it was.

My understanding is that fire belly toads need only a little bit of this UV. Most of these frogs live in lowland watery areas, and that environment has UV light such that you would get at a zero elevation in a humid environment...which is rather low.

I wonder what the cheapest way is for me to measure actual exposure. You are probably correct that it isn't worth the expenditure for this one application.