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We had a sad situation that I won't get into, but as a result, our viv is no longer in use. I've got it posted in [ Invalid URL Removed / p= t=256822 f=2 ]. Unfortunately, really for people in Colorado only. You can see how it was made here. And even if you aren't interested in buying this...

So our beardie is around 10 to 12 months old (not sure exactly), and over the past few weeks his appetite has been going down and he's gotten much less active. If I pick him up and put him in his food dish with some roaches and veggies he'll eat a few, but otherwise he doesn't go after them...

There are many different ways to approach advanced lighting for reptiles, but for this I'll provide some info on how I've done it. At a bare minimum bearded dragons require enough heat for basking and UVB for making vitamins. This is typically achieved by using a heat producing basking bulb of...

Our dragon has been in his new viv for about a month now, so I figured I'd post some info about it. I posted some info about building it in the DIY section here: viewtopic.php?f=75&t=233838 Here are some pictures of the overall viv before we finished the dig box: The two back walls are...

Actually I was just able to post, so maybe I'm not blocked but the post I'm trying to submit contains content that is causing that particular post to be blocked. I'm not sure. Still need help from an admin to figure out why the post I'm trying to submit is blocked. This is the error I get when I...

Hi, I tried posting a large post from home on Saturday morning and hit Preview a few times in the process. When I went to submit the post it said I was blocked by the spam filter software. I'm still blocked and can't post from home but I can post from work due to a different IP address. Can...

I wasn't totally happy with my PAR38 basking light so started looking around for other options. I got an idea from Reptilelady on this board and found a better bulb. What I'm using now is this 10" brooding light fixture from Home Depot (that I saw from Reptilelady)...

I don't see many of these around, but I'd like to find a good feeder I can release loose into the viv, and these seem better than crickets due to being less noisy and harder for them to hide in small spaces.

Now that I've mostly finished our new viv, I'm thinking about an outdoor enclosure. What I'd really like to build is a true pen, not an outdoor cage. I see the difference in those as a pen being a permanent fixture, whereas a cage is a movable box that's suitable for outdoor use. I want a pen...

I've been doing a lot of research on lighting as I'm setting up my new viv and figured I would share some of this. We see a lot about the importance of UVB and basking lights for reptiles, but other aspects of lighting often seem to get overlooked. It is true that UV and basking lights are...

I'm setting up my new 16 sqft viv and I've got a halogen basking lamp, a 24" 10.0 T5 HO UV bulb, and I want to use my 18" T8 hood for a non UV sunlight providing bulb. I do plan to put real plants into the viv (not sure how that's going to work out, but i'm going to try it). So my question...

I see lots of info on-line about how to setup indoor worm farms, so this seems like a relatively easy feeder to raise potentially (plus you can use them for fishing!) From everything I've read these are also quite a healthy food for dragons, I just don't see people talking about them much...

We currently keep our dubias in a 10 gallon fish tank, and we have 2 of those. Can you get a colony going in one of those or are they too small?

Can we creating a list of all major feeder bugs by ease of care? Perhaps there are two types of care: #1 How easy to just keep alive, and #2 how easy to breed. If you want to rate them we could do 1 = easy 5 = most difficult. I'll start it off with a basic listing, but I have little experience...

So, our guy won't have anything to do with a water dish. After months of keeping a dish in there and filling it and knowing that he never uses it, I'm taking it out. Since he never used it (that I know of and I've taken time-laps of him throughout the day), it's not different now than before...

I'm finalizing my new viv and running into a concern for the UV light. I'd prefer to use the 22" T5-HO Reptisun, since the Arcadias are generally more expensive and harder to find. But according to the following guide, it may be too strong for my placement...

We got a reptile because my kid wanted one and I didn't know any better. Now that we have our dragon, we love him and we've gone all out to provide the best care possible, but since taking this on I've learned a lot and from what I can see, honestly, reptiles should not be sold and marketed as...

I see all of these LED T5 HO bulbs on amazon. Are these things actually legitimate replacements for a traditional T5 bulb? Do they generate the necessary UV? If so it seems they would be a huge cost savings...

I'm finishing up my new viv build and I'm preping one of the large logs I plan to put into it. It's an aged apple wood stump, but I've recently realized an issue with it. It's prefect, except it has a huge split running the length of it. The split it about as wide as my pinkie. It also is on the...

We're soon to be upgrading to a larger, 16 sq ft viv and I'd like to use some kind of setup that sort of simulates real world lighting/temp conditions. My current setup uses 3 timers. I have a red light, a 100w ZooMed Basking light, and 18" UV light. The red light comes on from 6:00 am to 6:30...