Mightaswell
New member
Hello,
I'm new to bearded dragons. I'm finishing a 4x2x2 enclosure and came here for advice on bioactive enclosures lighting advice. I understand that I need basking and uvb 10.0 strip lights for the dragon. I'm more concerned about extra light for the plants in choosing, but I'll start a thread on that specific question.
I feed my dragon crickets 3x a day in a plastic bin outside the enclosure. I also give salads but it doesnt appear to eat much of them.
My 4x2x2 enclosure is birch plywood with a sliding door front. The sliding door itself is framed in with 1x3 and 1x2 kiln dried pine. I tried using as much hardwood as I can but I couldn't find birch for the 1x3 and 1x2. I sanded well with 80 grit sand paper. All inside walls and door frame are polyurethane. I put 3 coats of 3x polyurethane(varathane triple thick polyurethane water based interior)inside sanding gently between coats. I waited a full 24hrs between coats because I wanted it to dry right. I used 2 quarts inside. I'm giving it time to finish drying tho. So hopefully monday it will be cured fully. Its not sticky or anything. I can touch it and not leave prints but manufacture label says allow 5 days to cure before using.
I was planning on doing a 50/50 play sand/ organic potting soil bioactive substrate and lining the walls with spineless prickly pear cactus and putting in a mulberry tree and pruning like bonsai.
Well that's about me.
I'm new to bearded dragons. I'm finishing a 4x2x2 enclosure and came here for advice on bioactive enclosures lighting advice. I understand that I need basking and uvb 10.0 strip lights for the dragon. I'm more concerned about extra light for the plants in choosing, but I'll start a thread on that specific question.
I feed my dragon crickets 3x a day in a plastic bin outside the enclosure. I also give salads but it doesnt appear to eat much of them.
My 4x2x2 enclosure is birch plywood with a sliding door front. The sliding door itself is framed in with 1x3 and 1x2 kiln dried pine. I tried using as much hardwood as I can but I couldn't find birch for the 1x3 and 1x2. I sanded well with 80 grit sand paper. All inside walls and door frame are polyurethane. I put 3 coats of 3x polyurethane(varathane triple thick polyurethane water based interior)inside sanding gently between coats. I waited a full 24hrs between coats because I wanted it to dry right. I used 2 quarts inside. I'm giving it time to finish drying tho. So hopefully monday it will be cured fully. Its not sticky or anything. I can touch it and not leave prints but manufacture label says allow 5 days to cure before using.
I was planning on doing a 50/50 play sand/ organic potting soil bioactive substrate and lining the walls with spineless prickly pear cactus and putting in a mulberry tree and pruning like bonsai.
Well that's about me.