How are Reptile Products developed? NEW Reptile Lamp & Tortoise Diet | John Courteney-Smith MRSB

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John Courteney-Smith MRSB of Arcadia Reptile joins us on the podcast again to the research and development process that is necessary to develop new reptile products. In his episode, we discuss the current state of herpetoculture (both the positives and negatives), new reptile technology, whether or not you should use a substrate divider in your vivaria, and the benefits and criticisms of the Deep Heat Projector. John also walks us through the development of Arcadia's new mercury-vapor bulb (D3EVO) specifically designed for the North American market as well as their new tortoise diet (Optimised52).

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Tortoise Diet Thesis: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2837&context=theses

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0:00 Coming Up
1:35 Guest Introduction
3:19 Housekeeping
3:50 FALL BREAK (thru September)
4:38 Welcome John / Blue Tree Monitor Rehab
13:02 Positive changes in Herpetolcture within the past year
17:29 Do you need a drainage divider in a vivarium?
21:54 Negative changes in Herpetolcture within the past year
30:20 New tech advancements/ Thermal Zoo Pro
35:25 Criticism of the Deep Heat Projector and IR-B
47:18 R&D of the new D3EVO Mercury Vapor Bulb (USA & CAN)
1:04:18 Arcadia Nutrition and Diets (R&D)
1:06:26 EXCLUSIVE Sneak Peak of new Arcadia Tortoise food
1:07:44 The Issue with the currently available Tortoise food
1:14:06 How Optimised52 is made and used
1:23:02 Supplementing snake diets?
1:24:35 Using Oral D3 supplementation
1:32:22 Closing Thoughts
1:33:19 Outro

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