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Originally Posted by Homebody

This is shocking. Scandalous, even.

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Though not really surprising. Most of these sorts of products are pretty clearly designed with the marketing team leading the way.

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Originally Posted by Malum Argenteum

Though not really surprising. Most of these sorts of products are pretty clearly designed with the marketing team leading the way.

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Addendum: the one I find the most troubling is Vivtech. I've talked to Ryan (company owner) in person, and he's on record on some podcasts talking about how he took UVA into consideration when designing the lamps. This appears to have been...misleading.

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Originally Posted by Malum Argenteum

Though not really surprising. Most of these sorts of products are pretty clearly designed with the marketing team leading the way.

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The article is a couple years old. Hopefully, they've improved their products since then. Anyway, buyer beware!

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Originally Posted by Homebody

The article is a couple years old. Hopefully, they've improved their products since then. Anyway, buyer beware!

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Taking just one example, the current ZooMed Reptisun UVB/LED is different than the tested model. They added 4 more UVA diodes. Unfortunately, the added diodes are 325nm and 340nm, while the UVA range that regulates D3 production is 315-335 (so only two of those diodes will have any effect). The spectral curve in the UV range is still very far from the solar curve.

https://zoomed.com/uvbled/

I am pretty certain that we know the UVA wavelength used for UV self regulation in herps in virtually no species, so if that wavelength is different in intensity from solar irradiance, herps will fail to adequately self-regulate their exposure. So at this point, if the spectral curve in the UV range isn't very close to that of sunlight, there's plenty of reason to believe that the UV being provided will be useless or dangerous.

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Originally Posted by Malum Argenteum

I bumped into a great paper on these lights:

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...lar_UV_spectra



It looks like all tested reptile UVB LED lamps (18 models) fail to provide a safe UV spectrum, and the authors (who include Baines) strongly imply that UVB LEDs should not be used for reptiles until they're redesigned based on further extensive testing.

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Wow thanks for letting us know. Blurgh I’ll have to get some new lights.


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