Recent content by Vegasdaze

Okay I'm here to report back. Thank you so much for the help here's what we've come up with for this guy. The difference is is amazing for him. Just put it together today so watching temperatures closely. I'm not sure that one Mercury vapor at that height is going to get past 90° so going to...

Well, thanks for the master class. I will check back in after a week or so in the new setup and see if these stress marks have disappeared. He was pretty impacted when we received him. Only holding one eye open all the time and clearly sick. We started bathing/soaking every other day and lord...

He loves his salads, gobbles them down. just not dusted with calcium. He wont touch it. Staple insect is BSFL right now. I alternate Salad/BSFL every other day. Even though the BSFL has calcium, I had been dusting those since he wont eat the dusted salad. Was just nervous he wasn't getting...

Got it. Ill get a better thermometer but one thing I noticed is that the MVB (100w) 12" above the hammock is only producing temps of 90-95 degrees on both stick on thermometers. Is that hot enough for the basking spot during the day? Nice habitat by the way! Mine gets here Friday.

Now, once I get that all correct, back to the calcium powder. How were you saying that related to my UVB setup?

Ok I will do all of that. So appreciative. So much false info out there. This store sold me a red heat light for night and calcium sand and I quickly realized that was wrong. Replaced with reptile carpet and the ceramic emiter for night. I have that fixture on a time so MVB goes off at 9pm and...

so this: https://www.amazon.com/Reptisun-T5-Ho-Terrarium-Hood/dp/B00CX5HXI2/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=reptisun+t5&qid=1635817572&sr=8-5 and this...

Oh thats great. Im going to order that now. Petco has the Reptisun 10 so I should be able to turn this around quickly. What a great community here and please dont get annoyed at all my future questions :) I will get this right.

The nice girl at Petco just told me to check out this tank from a competitor. Do you see any issues? Its 120 gal with wood sides.. https://www.zenhabitats.com/collections/zen-habitats-reptile-enclosures/products/zen-habitat-w-wood-panels

Looking at tanks with the same dimensions it seems to be 30 gal. They did take me for a ride. I didnt tell you he cost $200 as well which is way to much. We came in for a pet rat for my daughter and fell in love with this guy. Ok so I will get a 75 gal tank or larger asap. This one seems to be...

I really appreciate the advice. And I'm really mad at the pet store for selling me $400 of wrong stuff. They took this guy in as a rescue and sold him to me. The store specializes in reptiles so that makes me even more angry. The tank is 2 ft by 2 ft square and 1 ft tall I don't know how many...

Here's a picture of his cage I kind of wish they wouldn't have sold me the square one and gave me a longer one that had bigger differences in temperature from end to end. If anything looks off about this setup please let me know. He has stress marks that have never went away or lightened at all...

Ah ok thank you. It is a Reptile Systems 100 watt Mercury vapor. He is a funny lizard. He does opposite of what I understand he's supposed to do. He basks in the evening and sleeps under his hammock at around 100° all night in the dark and then sits on the cool side of the cage all day long at...