Recent content by acanthophismetalis

I was cleaning out one of my tanks today and found that it has loads of silverfish inside of all different sizes, leading me to believe they are surviving and breeding in there. Is this something to be concerned about or are they not harmful to beardies? I have cleaned them all out as well as I...

Okay, thanks very much. Might I ask what you think the problem with these bulbs could be? I had the exact same ones in prior to brumation and there were no problems at all for them. Are there problems with MVBs in this regard that there is a sort of consensus upon? I will look into and do some...

I am not sure that these two are MVBs truly. They are heat and UVB in one - 125 watts each. The other tank I have for my other female has the exact setup you are speaking of - with a basking bulb, a tube UVB and tiles rather than substrate. The reason these two have alternative setups to that is...

Thank you for the response. I am aware that beardies generally like longer enclosures more but this guy reall loves to climb and be up high. My girls are definitely happy in the longer tanks but this guy is always trying to get as high as he can go and doesn't tend to move all that much along...

The male does open his when he needs to in order to do something but otherwise shuts them. The female holds hers close all the time and barely wants to open the right eye at all.

The male is 2 years old and this is his first time brumating. The female is 4 years old and I am unaware of if she has brumated in the past as this was my first winter with her. As far as I am aware, her last owner did not allow them to brumate so this may very well have been the first time for...