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[QUOTE="Axil, post: 2017233, member: 117612"] Thank you [USER=97951]@KarrieRee[/USER] for all your advice. Let me try to address everything your brought up. Please let me know if i miss anything. We've been very careful about not giving her anything larger than the space between her eyes. I didn't know the roaches could be too small. I kinda figured 2 small roaches had the same nutritional value as 1 big one twice the size. I did just order 1000 more roaches from the website you mentioned unfortunately i only went up one size to 3/8. We initially were limiting her to 15-20 roaches per meal, but as she would eat them in about 1-2 minutes and most of the research i had done indicated they ought to get as many as they can eat in 10-15 minutes we gradually increased them. She still finishes eating in 3-5 minutes but she will sometimes leave roaches now, and doesn't seem to eat them in as much of a hurry as she used to. Do Collard Greens count as "a salad" i normally chop of a bunch of them (no pieces are larger than the space between her eyes) and give them to her while i prepare her morning roaches. She eats a fair amount of it most mornings. The UV situation is a pain, here is a picture of the top of the tank (it's definitely 12") : . s[ATTACH type="full" alt="beebztop.jpg"]78418[/ATTACH] so as you can see there's a big bar in the middle that makes light placement difficult. and i can't move the light across to the other side of the bar because it hangs out across my daughters room and there is furniture in the way. I can't move the basking light to the side with the foam rock wall because it will heat the climbing surface up to 140f. And she will do this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="crazybeebz.jpg"]78419[/ATTACH] So i'm kind of at a loss for how to improve the layout until we upgrade her enclosure. She spends a fair amount of time hanging out on the wall which i think is pretty well hit by the UVB in it's current position. The little UVB cards i have show full UVB coverage over most of the cage, i know they are not super accurate but they hardly lit up at all for Coil light. I have two digital probes for humidity. The one placed in the center of the backwall will stay around 16-18% unless i do a lot of misting. I have a humidifier in the room but it's too powerful i think. It will take the room up to 70% but the enclosure still hangs around 25%. I worry that at night it will get really humid, so i'm kinda playing with it trying to find the right balance. She will occasionally lick off a drop of water if we put it on her head. She did this more when we first got her but recently i've been spraying the roaches (she gets them in a dish) so they are damp when she eats them. I normally do it one or two of her three daily feedings so i don't overhydrate her. I always spray the greens. She doesn't drink in the bath, she mostly looks terrified then makes a run for it after a minute or two. I'm really torn on the whole substrate issue. She really loved digging, and i was considering using a highly regarded loose substrate like the biodude stuff i bought. [URL='https://www.reptiles.swelluk.com/help-guides/what-is-the-best-bearded-dragon-substrate/'] I've read articles[/URL] that suggest this is ok, or even preferable to solid substrates in healthy Beardies and of course i've also read the horror stories about impaction. *edit* oh, and on the new 120g tank. Is the kit from DubaiRoaches.com well regarded here? It's much more affordable than the all glass ones, I wouldn't be able to afford one that size from a place like CarolinaCustom [/QUOTE]
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