I got home after a bad day at work and fixed myself a gin and tonic (not my usual drink, just had a whim for one) I went to check on Ryu to see how he was doing and noticed my drink was fluorescing a bright blue.

Being the total geek that I am I whipped out my UVB meter to try and see the correlation between gin, tonic, and UVB.

After several more gin and tonics I decided that it was the tonic that fluoresced under UV light (which may not be a surprise to those of you who drink gin and tonics in a nightclub with UV light) and not the gin. I also determined that it was most likely that light more in the UVA range was what made the tonic fluoresce as my drinks would start glowing at a mere 1mw/cm2 of UVB. The best fluorescence was obtained by placing my drink directly under my megaray light putting out over 1000mw/cm2 of UVB light (and unknown quantities of UVA light).

Of course after that I put a large pinch of bee pollen in Ryu’s cage to apologize for the fact I was using his basking light for scientific(well maybe...) experiments.

Of course this whole post could be due to the influence of several large gin and tonics.

Good to have you back uro_fan. Hope you had a nice vacation and break from the forums.