Advice on food supplements and UVB for a bearded dragon

[Elio]

I tried that, also told them I would buy such as 2 - 3 tubes, 10 - 20 basking lamps... but no. They seem to place an order with their importer about a mixed delivery of "reptile supplies", and it contains one for each item, and once that's mostly sold out, place another one with their importer.

Oh I see! That sounds so complicated

 

[ChileanTaco]

I just got my Reptisun T5 delivered . Checked online out of curiosity: Store who had one when I ordered now has zero.

 

[Elio]

I just got my Reptisun T5 delivered . Checked online out of curiosity: Store who had one when I ordered now has zero.

Oh my I hope they'll get more soon 🫶

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Arcadia lights I can second or third.
Supplements I dust her roaches with calcium, but also feed her a good diet. Dandelion greens are healthy, readily available almost everywhere and my dragon loves them. Same with clovers. I prefer she get her vitamins and minerals from natural sources. I'd really like to find some research on their wild diet and try to grow more of those things for her.

 

[Sue E.]

Arcadia lights I can second or third.
Supplements I dust her roaches with calcium, but also feed her a good diet. Dandelion greens are healthy, readily available almost everywhere and my dragon loves them. Same with clovers. I prefer she get her vitamins and minerals from natural sources. I'd really like to find some research on their wild diet and try to grow more of those things for her.

I have a ton of clovers, Im going to offer them to Kai over the next few days.

 

[ChileanTaco]

I prefer she get her vitamins and minerals from natural sources.

I agree. If I could, I would feed him a whole garden
(Did so before when I had pets and lived in a place where having a garden or foraging was possible. My birds also loved the clover and dandelion and picking them was an easy thing, not much to think about.)

Here, I feed my dragon vegetables (including greens) from the supermarket (organic), plus his beloved golliwog of which another soccerball-large specimen, still on the windowsill, awaits the confrontation with dragon teeth

If possible, vitamins and minerals from natural sources are really to be preferred, as (also) for humans, the body usually relies on other micronutritients found in that food to make use of those vitamins and minerals - as they usually occur together, the body has adapted to process them this way together. Same for me: I prefer getting my vitamins and minerals from "real food", instead of from powder shakes, vitamins and such (also as a vegetarian eating an almost vegan diet).