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[QUOTE="magicmagni, post: 2038029, member: 72652"] Your recommendation is not far off from what Dr. Howard came up with in his field study. When I was researching recently, I came across [I][URL='https://youtu.be/1wmGbF7eSOI?si=KnkBHYkx-8f_SOJO']this video interview[/URL] [/I]that was super helpful and interesting. He explains how he used a SolarMeter 6.5 to measure the UVI of 100+ Bearded Dragons in the wild at various times in the day. He plots this data in the slide below.. what shocked me was that some individuals were exposing themselves to a UVI of 10.0+ in afternoon! Not to say I would want to provide that high of a level in the enclosure lol. If I recall correctly he observed that they were out in those extremes morso for social reasons like territorial disputes etc.. and not actively seeking the UV... probaly moreso tolerating it and at that a good amount of heat too I would guess. Amazing how tolerant they can be of some really extreme conditions. [ATTACH type="full"]86283[/ATTACH] *Screenshot from the Video Interview linked above He averaged all the datapoints in slide above to come up with a recommendation of 4.1UVI at the basking spot in captivity using the "sunbeam method". It is believed that at this average the D3 blood levels would be at the same levels as those of a wild BD. [ATTACH type="full"]86284[/ATTACH] *Screenshot from the Video Interview linked above [/QUOTE]
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