Hi everyone!, I'm no stranger to taking care of animals but this is my first time caring for a bearded dragon. He or She is around 3 months old? ( yeah I haven't sexed it yet, I do know how but still to small for me to tell), I had it for about a month now, I just call it beardie until I know the sex to give a proper name . Now that my beardie is shedding I noticed a swollen hand and I DON'T think its retained shed, the hand is double the size of the normal hand. It's been eating well, I have no idea what the issue is
husbandry:
10 gal tank, 20 gal was over kill on a 4 inch beardie. beardie is now 6.25 inches
60 watt UVA flukers bulb for heat, I know that sounds low but when I had a higher bulb the tank was going over 120 degrees, It stays pretty hot in my apartment.
15 watt repti-sun 10.0 mini compact florescent for desert animals, both bulbs are 10-12 inches from basking spot
temperature range: hot side 90-110 degrees, cool side 80-85 degrees
decor: driftwood log, wood hut hide, reptile carpet, water dish and just now added a pieces of fleece to relieve pressure at night, beardie loves it. (fleece was not in the tank prior to swelling)
2 digital thermometers, one measures temperature and humidity on cool side, the other measures temperature on basking side
food: crickets dusted with repti cal calcium w/ vitamin D3 and herptivite multivitamin, I tried dubias, wax worms, phoenix worms....wont touch em. still too small for meal worms and butter worms. I've gotten beardie to eat mango and bell pepper a couple times. crickets are gut loaded with cricket feed containing vitamins and minerals added and cricket drink with extra calcium added
at night I don't use heating, it stays between 70-75 degrees in my room which is warmer than a desert which can drop to 50 degrees. at 6am the light goes on at 7-8pm it goes off, depends on when beardie had the last cricket, I wait an hour minimum before turning it off if a cricket was eaten late.
(set up: temperature was still rising when i took the pics, its reading 109 degrees right now at the hot side, 83 on the cool side 42% humidity)
(swollen hand)
husbandry:
10 gal tank, 20 gal was over kill on a 4 inch beardie. beardie is now 6.25 inches
60 watt UVA flukers bulb for heat, I know that sounds low but when I had a higher bulb the tank was going over 120 degrees, It stays pretty hot in my apartment.
15 watt repti-sun 10.0 mini compact florescent for desert animals, both bulbs are 10-12 inches from basking spot
temperature range: hot side 90-110 degrees, cool side 80-85 degrees
decor: driftwood log, wood hut hide, reptile carpet, water dish and just now added a pieces of fleece to relieve pressure at night, beardie loves it. (fleece was not in the tank prior to swelling)
2 digital thermometers, one measures temperature and humidity on cool side, the other measures temperature on basking side
food: crickets dusted with repti cal calcium w/ vitamin D3 and herptivite multivitamin, I tried dubias, wax worms, phoenix worms....wont touch em. still too small for meal worms and butter worms. I've gotten beardie to eat mango and bell pepper a couple times. crickets are gut loaded with cricket feed containing vitamins and minerals added and cricket drink with extra calcium added
at night I don't use heating, it stays between 70-75 degrees in my room which is warmer than a desert which can drop to 50 degrees. at 6am the light goes on at 7-8pm it goes off, depends on when beardie had the last cricket, I wait an hour minimum before turning it off if a cricket was eaten late.