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No, spinach is one of the worst. It binds calcium, so they don't get a proper calcium intake. Romaine lettuce is almost all water and little to no nutritional value. Proper greens would be the dark stuff. Collard greens, dandelion greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, endive, escarole, bok...

For BSFL, I'd recommend ordering large or jumbo size worms from symptonbsf.com. They're big, healthy worms and their pricing is good. As for a dubia colony, it's pretty simple to keep one. Basically as long as you don't let food rot in there, creating mold, and you keep it warm in the bin...

Your dragon should be getting calcium supplement on one of his daily feedings 5 days a week and a multi-vitamin like Rep-Cal Herptivite 2 days a week.

Room temps are fine. Lower temps will keep them from growing as fast too, keeping them at the size you ordered. Definitely look into breeding. It's super super easy. It will save you a lot of money in the long run. You can feed them kitchen veggie scraps and scraps from your dragons greens and...

Yes it's possible for them to be picky. MY guy recently decided he's not interested in dubias anymore. He'll eat a few of them every few days to keep from starving I guess, but he's not very enthusiastic. I bought some crickets (I hate those miserable, smelly, die quickly, bite my dragon things)...

Yes it's possible for them to be picky. MY guy recently decided he's not interested in dubias anymore. He'll eat a few of them every few days to keep from starving I guess, but he's not very enthusiastic. I bought some crickets (I hate those miserable, smelly, die quickly, bite my dragon things)...

You can read the surface temperature of anything by pointing the laser at it. There's probably not much use in taking the temp of the dragon's skin, as you have no frame of reference for what the temperature readings mean. Also, be careful not to hit the dragon's eyes with the laser or spook it...

Only if you can't control basking temps with basking light distance or if you need a CHE to supplement nighttime heat and it's getting too warm. I have a dome light with a dimmer built in, so I can dial it in without moving lights around and to compensate for changes in ambient house temps. My...

If you didn't buy the fixture yet, get the Sunblaster t5 fixture from Amazon. It comes with a reflector and mounting hardware.

+1 for dubideli. Good prices. Bugs arrive healthy.

In lieu of a wine fridge, you can put them in a small cooler with an ice pack that will keep the cooler between 50-60. Warm up that day's feeders to get the wriggling.

No, unfortunately t5 fixtures and t8 fixtures are not compatible. They use different spaced contact pins on the end of the bulb and the ballast in a t8 fixture isn't strong enough to drive the t5bulb. You would want a 24" t5 fixture with 22" bulbs for a 36" enclosure. That allows for a...

You could also try culling the males down to 1:5 ratio. Still enough to get the job done. ?

I would strongly suggest moving that UVB under the screen or upgrading to a t5 fixture. T8 lamps through a screen give off little to no UVB unless the dragon is almost touching it. A t5 bulb would give you good UVB at 8-10" through the screen and 12" or so if inside the enclosure. I had the...

Your setup looks pretty good. Temps can be 100-105 on the basking spot. What is the UVB they have you set up with? Looks like a tube, which is good, but what bulb is in there. Are you running another bulb besides basking in that dome? What is it? No colored heat lamps should be used. I get...