photo-kerato-conjunctivitis

[LeilaNami]

Alright thank you very much!

And just for the record, I would never do anything to put my animals at risk. I was just simply wondering if the information was completely accurate and proven.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

And just for the record, I would never do anything to put my animals at risk. I was just simply wondering if the information was completely accurate and proven.

Understood

-Brad

 

[JayzunBoget]

I work in a pet store and I would really like to know what to tell my customers.

At this point, if I were in your position, I would steer people away from cfl uvb lights.

I think that's good advice, for now. I would also recommend that you warn your customers not to allow prolonged exposure closer than 6 or 8 inches to the mercury vapor bulbs.
The upside to photokeratoconjunctivitis is that it is (pardon the pun) casting light onto our collective ignorance of the full affects of the entire UVB range of light and it's role in proper calcium metabolization in reptiles.
It's funny now to look back at all of the potentially harmful tings that we have subjected our exotic pets to in the past that we have a better understanding of now.
I believe that in the future, when we look back at that which we are using to care for our pets now, particularly in the subject of lighting, we will wonder what hell they (the manufacturers of the lighting products that we are using now) were thinking. :wall:

 

[LeilaNami]

I think that is what I'll be doing from now on. I always told my customers to create a gradient and if they wanted a light on their tank for a herp that didn't need it, provide plenty of hiding places for them to escape to. I've researched more into what herps need what intensity of UV. I was talking to my coworker the other day. He had a 10.0 Exoterra compact light on his leo's tank. He took it off because her skin started to blister. We really couldn't figure out why until I had read the article and pointed it out to him.