ComicBookMama
Sub-Adult Member
I was just following a conversation on the Zen Habitats fan page on Facebook... TL/DR: owner was upset because she has a 4x2x4 for her beardie, and was told it wasn't the right size (not enough room to run around in vs. vertical space). Most of the comments were telling her that she's just fine, as long as she has the right UV and basking spot temps. One, however, shot my eyebrows up... a person saying that the husbandry specs are shifting away from 4x2x2 to 3 foot high enclosures, because beardies are "an arboreal species."
::glances accusingly at Figment, who rarely climbs anything in his hab, but scales bookshelves happily during walkabout time::
Is this correct information? Should we be encouraging people to go for even BIGGER beardie habs than we already do? My initial thought was that if we start telling people that their 40BRs are too small and that they need a 4x3x3 or something similar, we'll NEVER get those beardies out of their smaller enclosures because suddenly, the "proper" size requirements are too much for the average owner to manage... particularly if they have multiple beardies.
If 4x2x2 isn't big enough anymore... what's the current thoughts about proper beardie hab size?
::glances accusingly at Figment, who rarely climbs anything in his hab, but scales bookshelves happily during walkabout time::
Is this correct information? Should we be encouraging people to go for even BIGGER beardie habs than we already do? My initial thought was that if we start telling people that their 40BRs are too small and that they need a 4x3x3 or something similar, we'll NEVER get those beardies out of their smaller enclosures because suddenly, the "proper" size requirements are too much for the average owner to manage... particularly if they have multiple beardies.
If 4x2x2 isn't big enough anymore... what's the current thoughts about proper beardie hab size?