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Originally Posted by Elliot
How are you sure that they have too much UV lighting? I'm not saying that you're wrong, I've just never heard of any kind of lightbulbs causing blindness in any reptiles. I've used one of mine some, and I haven't seen any problems from it. Of course, it is designed to be used with reptiles.
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There were test done before. The UVA rays from black lights are very high. There was a good article on reptile lights in the "Vivarium magazine" before. There are UV indicators available. I would never use it with a nocturnal reptile & limited use with diurnal reptiles
here is a chart, if I remember right; the UVB is what is needed in lizard & turtles for absorbing vitamin D3
Bulb
Manufacturer
UVA
UVB
Illuminance (lux)
Reptisun UVB 310
Zoo Med1
23
10
398
Reptile D-Light 8%
National Biolological Corp.
no longer made
7
9
409
Reptile D-Light 3%
National Biolological Corp.
no longer made
6
4
430
Reptile Daylight
Energy Savers Unlimited (ESU)
3
3
398
Sylvania 350 Blacklight
Sylvania
153
2.6
86
Metal Halide, 100w, 5500K
Energy Savers Unlimited (ESU)
40
1.9
2260
Vita-Lite
Duro-Test
6
1.3
452
VLX Full Spectrum
Verilux
3
1.2
490
ReptaSun
Fluker
5
1.1
538
Chroma 50
General Electric
2
1.1
495
Colortone 50
Philips Lighting Co.
2
1.1
484
Lumichrome Full Spectrum2
Lumiram
4
0.9
527
Ott-Lite
Environmental Lighting Concepts
2
0.9
479
Repti-Glo
Rolf C. Hagen Corp.
1
0.9
829
Cool White
Sylvania Lighting
2
0.1
527