UVB Light or D3 supplement

[kenC56]

I have been doing some reading and I am not sure wich way to go for my savs. With proper heating is a good vitamin supplemnt with d3 sufficient to keep my savs healthy? Some of the reading I have been doing indicates many people have success with out uvb bulbs. What are some negative effects that people have seen with d3 supplements instead of uvb? This really has me stumped with evrything I have been reading. I would really love if someone can point me in the proper direction. I am new to savs and would like to get started doing things properly.

 

[coura]

If you have the time you could sun bathe them wich is better then any uv ligth and skip the uv ligths with like 2 hours of direct sun a week, plus some generic vit and mineral suplements for herps like zoomeds reptivite

 

[kenC56]

I do sun bathe them in the summer. But in the winter it is a little to cold here in Las Vegas.

If you have the time you could sun bathe them wich is better then any uv ligth and skip the uv ligths with like 2 hours of direct sun a week, plus some generic vit and mineral suplements for herps like zoomeds reptivite

 

[SimonL]

Once they start eating vertebrate prey, UVB is not really an issue (like with snakes). If you were feeding primarily insects, I'd have a UVB bulb.

 

[kenC56]

I have them on diet mainly small rats with roaches once a week and a quial here and there. I have been talking to a breeder and the told me they still do the supplments with d3 on tte roaches once a week.

 

[smijeha]

ive also read that they can be raised with or with out. if you go to kingsnake.com fr on the monitor forum has raised and bred monitors on and with out uvb. i raised my blackthroat monitor with a uvb and i used a calcium/d3 powder on crix and roaches. with the need for a heat bulb why dont you just play on the safe side and get an active uv heat bulb?