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View Poll Results: Do you use UV lighting? | |||
Yes all year round. | 39 | 82.98% | |
No just rely on the sun's rays. | 8 | 17.02% | |
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18-09-2011, 10:03 AM | #1 |
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UV light Poll
After reading the thread about uv lighting i just wondered how many if us do and dont use it !
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18-09-2011, 11:24 AM | #2 |
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You will find most people do because they have been swept along with the tide and they were told it the right thing to do.
I don't use lights but I do supplement. Which I do with my parrots, and have done for 15 years, they are in the very best of health and they live inside all year round.
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18-09-2011, 11:47 AM | #3 |
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I rely on both the sun in the summer and lights in winter. To me the sun will always be the primary source of UVB for my tortoises. Which is why I'm not too fussed about replacing my bulbs until they blow and I only feed nutrobal every couple of weeks now.
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18-09-2011, 11:48 AM | #4 |
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I don't use it all year round but I do use it when the torts are inside (which is not often) so my answer would be occasionally, but there isn't an option for that
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18-09-2011, 12:12 PM | #5 |
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I used them for 20 some odd years in one form or another. Mostly Mercury vapor in the last 10 years. It became too expensive so I went to supplementation for the tortoises indoors. Outdoor tortoises get sunshine 6 months out of the year now along with calcium carbonate.
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18-09-2011, 07:23 PM | #6 |
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PQ sometimes you really do need to think about what you write.............I can assure you I have not been sweep along with the tide as you so kindly put it!!
This was a poll to just click yes all year round or no just rely on sun rays. Not to insult people! |
18-09-2011, 07:35 PM | #7 |
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I don't actually think she was insulting anyone, I don't feel insulted and I'm one of those who use them
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18-09-2011, 07:43 PM | #8 |
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Well we are all different Alan, and saying that people have been swept along with the tide is basically calling them naive and gullible.
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18-09-2011, 07:43 PM | #9 |
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I have a musk turtle with me at the moment that has had no uv light at all since it hatched and his shell is perfectly smooth. It does make me question that as long as the diet is correct uv is not needed
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18-09-2011, 08:06 PM | #10 |
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I am sorry if you have taken offence. I did say "most" and I didn't mean it in a derogatory way. I just meant that when most people first start keeping torts, they research and find that UV lights are widely used or are sold them by the pet shop. There is hardly, if any, mention of just supplementing them as an alternative.
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