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Are we overexposing our dragons to UV?
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[QUOTE="Claudiusx, post: 1894677, member: 31715"] One of my hopes was that we would be able to look at a large sample of blood results and hopefully find an invisible ceiling in regards to 25(OH) levels. If this was the case we could assume we are already providing enough UVB to our dragons based off a couple theories: 1. the fact that in humans, the skin will only produce so much D3 from the sun before the sun actually starts destroying more from being made. If this was the case with reptiles, we could lead ourselves to that conclusion, that if we hit the invisible ceiling in regards to their bloodwork, that we are providing enough UV. 2. If we found this to be true, we could then measure 25(OH) levels in dragons under less than commonly recommended UVI levels (EG a reptisun 10.0 ontop of a mesh top) Few issues with this, but Frances explains it better. The main being that, we aren't providing anything close to the sun, therefor it is unreasonable to assume that the UVB we provide will also destroy extra Vit D that it produces. -Brandon [/QUOTE]
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