Frogs don't use UVB...

[Tony]

Conventional wisdom says that frogs do not need or use UVB lighting, apparently my froglets didn't get the memo. This little guy just spent 20 minutes basking before he found a spot to fold up and go back to sleep.

[poison beauties]

He is a little pasty, Maybe some UVB will help.

Michael

[bshmerlie]

LOL...He does look pasty. . My Red Eye tank is over grown....they could sleep anywhere to stay out of the light but they choose to sleep on leaves that are directly above the lights. Go figure.

[wesleybrouwer]

I believe that especially tree frogs have a certain need of UV.
Above all of my vivs i use UV lights now, since i found that my tree frogs were lying in the beams of UV emitting lights, after a while they just have enough and descide to go underneath some leaves again.

I also found that my females when developing eggs, spend a lot longer in the UV beam.
Results are bigger and better clutches, if it is coincedence? Not really sure yet, but i have a feeling it might just contribute.
UV helps them develop D3 vitamin in a natural way, on it's turn D3 is part of a healthy calcium household.

Some species i saw in a greenhouse and in a viv without UV, even showed a different patern. I believe this also has something to do with the lighting.

I wrote an article about it a while ago, it was about lighting in general, part of it was dedicated to UV and it's working.
It is only published in Dutch tough, but it will be published in the English edition soon.

[John]

There are various schools of thought on this. My thinking is that if any frogs can benefit from it, it's Latin and South American tree frogs, but no one has presented any scientific studies to prove they need it.

[poison beauties]

My actual thoughts in this are that many of these frogs live under the canopy and are nocturnal. Im sure more than a few of them never see the rays of the sun. Whether actual uvb helps or not in the tads is something Im more interested in. As the rays of the sun do hit the water often.

Michael

[iheartfrogs]

There are various schools of thought on this. My thinking is that if any frogs can benefit from it, it's Latin and South American tree frogs, but no one has presented any scientific studies to prove they need it.

Since I started learning about frogs I found that seems to be the case in all areas ):
I'm hungry for more information.

[nok1888]

I'm going to be keeping PDF's and will have a 2.0 UVB bulb. I know they don't necessarily need it but there needs to be a light so why not just use a UVB bulb. That way if they need it it's there and if they don't it'll not harm them. I'm new to all this and usually over think things but prefer to be safe than sorry

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