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Lighting/Enclosures
Are we overexposing our dragons to UV?
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[QUOTE="Taterbug, post: 1894691, member: 71213"] I think new information and old information/"best practices" get conflated alot, it's unfortunate. People want to help and maybe don't quite understand the details so well. So the telephone game gets played and there ends up some questionable advice going around. I have to disagree on the point of "what's best" though, but it's purely from an idealized vantage point. T8 lamps are loosing their relivance when it comes to [b]best[/b] husbandry practices for beardies. They are adequate and they do broaden the options available, they are neccisary for some situations due to space or budget etc. Sometimes, you have to work with what you've got. However, I think they also reinforce inferior standards as being good ones. I'd much rather see a T5 without a reflector on the ceiling than a T8 mounted on the wall. At the same time, i'd rather see a lizard in a big (floor space) enclosure with T8 lamps, than a small enclosure (or tall skinny one) with a T5. Again, it's a personal mindset on my part. I do.agree that perfectly healthy animals can be raised under T8 lamps, but I'd consider it lower in a good better best scale becuase it does limit the rest of the environment. As for my setup, my basking lights are synced to the local day/night and the ramp up is about 60-90mins. So in the summer everything is on longer. UV about 2-3hr less than the basking lights (I forget the exact times). [/QUOTE]
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