hello beardie lovers!
im a new beardie owner (Blue Belle is my first bearded dragon) and i have been learning things by trial and error and this site! I kinda stumbled across a topic that coil UVB's were bad...the terrarium i have now is much more of a taller terrarium than a lenghthy one. I will be uprading her tank within the next two months to a long one, so i will be able to have a tube UVB. My concern is that the coils that i currently have are doing more harm than good? The terrarium is 30 gallons. They are the UVB ReptiSun coils, two of them in an overhead compact top (one 10.0 and one 5.0) and then she has her regular basking light for her basking area. A little background info: Blue Belle is approximatley 3 months old and is about 7.5 inches tip to tail. She has fairly regualr sheds, her diet consists maostly of crickets, and a salad of chopped collard greens, cauliflower, and red cabbage/brocoli that she is slowly starting to take interest in. her subrstate is slate, she loved to climb, bask, eat, take daily warm water soaks in my sink and trips outside for some sun. she appears and acts what i THINK a healthy young beardie should (alert, good sleep pattern, easy to handle, curious and sweet) i just adore her. But if i am doing something wrong with coils, i ofcourse want to change things. What are the risks here? i have heard everything from blindness to over heating with coils...is this consistent with the truth? THANK YOU so much for your help!!! i REALLY appreciate it more than you know!!!!
im a new beardie owner (Blue Belle is my first bearded dragon) and i have been learning things by trial and error and this site! I kinda stumbled across a topic that coil UVB's were bad...the terrarium i have now is much more of a taller terrarium than a lenghthy one. I will be uprading her tank within the next two months to a long one, so i will be able to have a tube UVB. My concern is that the coils that i currently have are doing more harm than good? The terrarium is 30 gallons. They are the UVB ReptiSun coils, two of them in an overhead compact top (one 10.0 and one 5.0) and then she has her regular basking light for her basking area. A little background info: Blue Belle is approximatley 3 months old and is about 7.5 inches tip to tail. She has fairly regualr sheds, her diet consists maostly of crickets, and a salad of chopped collard greens, cauliflower, and red cabbage/brocoli that she is slowly starting to take interest in. her subrstate is slate, she loved to climb, bask, eat, take daily warm water soaks in my sink and trips outside for some sun. she appears and acts what i THINK a healthy young beardie should (alert, good sleep pattern, easy to handle, curious and sweet) i just adore her. But if i am doing something wrong with coils, i ofcourse want to change things. What are the risks here? i have heard everything from blindness to over heating with coils...is this consistent with the truth? THANK YOU so much for your help!!! i REALLY appreciate it more than you know!!!!