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My understanding is that while there is LEDs that produce the appropriate UVB in the 290-305 nm wavelengths, they are super expensive (something like $300 per LED) and burn out quick. You have to remember, there are numerous UV lengths, not all of them are good. The full spectrum LEDs you're talking about will produce visual light, they will not produce the UVB that reptiles should be receiving. It isn't that plants respond better to LED UV than they do other sources, it is that LEDs can more accurately produce the specific wavelengths that the plants use in photosynthesis.

[QUOTE="Roadkill, post: 148777, member: 3844"] My understanding is that while there is LEDs that produce the appropriate UVB in the 290-305 nm wavelengths, they are super expensive (something like $300 per LED) and burn out quick. You have to remember, there are numerous UV lengths, not all of them are good. The full spectrum LEDs you're talking about will produce visual light, they will not produce the UVB that reptiles should be receiving. It isn't that plants respond better to LED UV than they do other sources, it is that LEDs can more accurately produce the specific wavelengths that the plants use in photosynthesis. [/QUOTE]

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