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raczoliver · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:45 am Post subject: The dangers of UV-A and B

I was just thinking, while we try to provide the best for our turtles by giving them UV-A and B light, aren't we harming ourselves? Question

UV-B is well known to cause skin cancer, and recently the same has been proven of UV-A. Not to talk of their effect on our eyes. Or is the radiation we get just insignificant?

dixieee · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

u have a point but we're not sun bathing under them so i guess there's no harm on us Smile

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STRAYKINGFISHER · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

You get much more UVa and UVb from the sun than you will ever get from the bulb, so I would not worry too much about it. Very Happy

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