Oh, goodness I’m so sorry I took this long to respond. I actually went to a reptile shop the day after posting this and they had the bulbs (and a uv meter!) for their bearded dragon enclosures. They were incredibly helpful, and even were so kind as to use their meter right there and then to help me gauge the distances. I ended up buying a new screen that I had tested the Arcadia bulb through since I needed one, and a bunch of crickets and miscellaneous items since I wanted to help their little shop. I don’t have a working camera right now because the one on my phone is broken, and I never had a need for a plain old camera on its own before. Their enclosure is fairly plain right now because there has been issues with the crickets being such good hiders. I’ll have to custom make a few hides and more climbing branches.
It has:
- a plain brown towel that I cut to size and fitted to the bottom
- 1 roughly 20x26” hammock under the basking spot that I made to keep them from possibly fighting in the future for a basking spot. This way the temperature gradient is perfectly even spreading from the corner which I keep at 113 and goes to a nice 108 in the circle around it where they actually prefer to bask. Occasionally after sitting somewhere else they’ll go right to the corner to warm up faster, then move.
- a decent sized log (as a step to the hammock) that I have suspended above-ground to keep crickets from hiding in or on it, and also serves as a “step” to the hammock
- Pyramid hiding home (they never use it and prefer sleeping on the floor, log, hammock, or just on top of the pyramid itself :/)
- and of course water dish. The water dish I plan on soon replacing with some type of flowing fountain I’m going to make to catch their eye and ears because they seem to constantly forget they have water in the cool corner.
I also put the tube next to the basking light as Drache suggested because the pet store had mentioned the same thing, and ended up moving the tube a little closer than I had it originally as they were basking for over half the day straight sometimes. Now they seem a bit happier with it overall, and their appetites have grown.
ps. I do have one issue however with my bigger baby females nasal shedding (I think it’s shed related), but I will make a new post as it is a health topic.