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19-Jun-06, 12:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Wollongong NSW | | |
What's the general opinion of when UV fluros should be changed out.
Speaking with our vet last week, he reckons they are good for about 4 months, I thought 12 months should see them out.
Also is there any devise that will measure UV available to the average punter?
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19-Jun-06, 12:06 PM
|  | Jellybean Club Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Hobbiton, Middle Earth. Gender:  | | | | RE: UV light ?
I use no uv at all, never had a problem. (I,m sure to cop a blasting I know, but it's the truth) .
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19-Jun-06, 12:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Noosa, Queensland Age/Gender: 21 | | | | RE: UV light ?
a spectrometer i think it is...
mesures light in kelvin... I dont know if thats the same as UV count |
19-Jun-06, 12:17 PM
| | Jellybean Club Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Hobbiton, Middle Earth. Gender: | | | | RE: UV light ?
I think if you need to measure UVB and UVA it will cost big bucks,but I have seen a device that does UVA only that costs a couple of hundred.
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19-Jun-06, 12:31 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Wollongong NSW | | | | I'm not really surprised that a device like this would be fairly expensive, so what are your opinions on when the lights should be changed.
JL, our vet reckons that UV is important with the sceletal (sp) development of critters that are not nocturnal.
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19-Jun-06, 12:32 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Sydney Age: 28 | | | | RE: UV light ?
Duration of a fluro tube in months will be somewhat relative to the number of hours per day it runs. On average though i would safely say that after 6 months a fluro tube is performing at less than 50%.
It would be cheaper to build an outdoor enclosure than to buy a device to measure UV. |
19-Jun-06, 12:37 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Wollongong NSW | | | | Very true Fishbot, something I didn't consider!!
I run the UV's 10hrs a day which would be quite a bit I suppose. Vet reckons at least 6 hrs. would be good.
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19-Jun-06, 12:51 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Vic Gender: | | | | I always though they should be changed at 6 months.
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19-Jun-06, 02:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Canberra | | | | I change every 6 months.I have a question but,I know my Diamonds need a uv light but what about my other pythons? I noticed something on another thread.Some one said that it is a waste of money supplying uv for other snakes that the only one that needs it is the Diamond.I my self do not plan to stop using uv on the others but would like to know how much truth is behind that.Can someone answer please?
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19-Jun-06, 02:25 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 21 | | | | UV is not needed for pythons, apart from diamonds. Why would you need to give sunlight to a herp that only comes out at night?
I don't think it would hurt to have UV at all and people say that it brings the colours out more. So why not? If you can spare the cash for the tubes, keep doing what your doing. |
19-Jun-06, 02:44 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Canberra | | | I have thought of that before but they dont just hide in a dark hide all day in the wild they do bask as well even if they dont move around.I think the main reason they move about at night is in search of food and have read that a coastal can wait for up to 10 days or more on a scent trail.So I think to some extent they do need uv and Diamonds are nocturnal too.Diamonds need it for calcium so why wouldnt a coastal? The black headed python sticks it head out of its hide to soak up rays from the sun.
This is part of the reason I am asking for more information on this.  It is confusing
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19-Jun-06, 02:45 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Wollongong NSW | | | | Yeah that's the way I look at it, no great cost in the grand scheme of things.
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19-Jun-06, 04:28 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | | UV lights are a waste of money for anything other than dragons. Why spend money on them for monitors, geckos, pythons etc when they don't need them ? If you have money and feel better if you have them then fine.
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19-Jun-06, 04:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Forest Lake, Brisbane | | | | is it for dragons???????
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19-Jun-06, 04:53 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Canberra | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by boa UV lights are a waste of money for anything other than dragons. Why spend money on them for monitors, geckos, pythons etc when they don't need them ? If you have money and feel better if you have them then fine. |
I am curious because pythons do bask in the wild  | | |
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