baby beardie need help

[misty82]

and honestly i havent seen no poop at all

 

[diamc]

about 87 on cool side and i am soaking in half water and half and half electrolyte and i hide that Panacur :}

A cool side of 87 really won't allow him to thermoregulate properly. What wattage basking bulb are you using in the 10 gallon?

Was he on a loose substrate in the pet store? What is he on now?

 

[misty82]

a 50 watt and he was on carpet at the store and still on carpet here

 

[misty82]

should i move him to a biger tank ?

 

[diamc]

A 50 watt bulb actually seems like quite a bit for a 10 gallon tank. You could probably get away with a 40 watt household bulb. Do you have a 20 gallon tank on hand? How small is this beardie?

 

[misty82]

7 grams weighed him befor i left work and i do i will just have to move some thing out of it :/

 

[diamc]

Oh, he is a small one. Using the Panacur concerns me even more now that I know how tiny he is.

That's good that you have a 20 gallon on hand. Make sure you wait until the temps stop rising before getting the final readings on both sides, ok?

 

[misty82]

i was told by some one that i could use reg house bulbs and then some one else told me no they have ua i think they said that the babies need

 

[misty82]

let me ask u think i have 2 other beardies that r healthy i have 40 gallons baskin should be? and cool side should be ? make sure i dont have them wrong

 

[misty82]

sorry getting late typing all weird but u understand right

 

[diamc]

Yes, you can use standard household light bulbs, they should be bright white ones though, not tinted pink. White bulbs give off UVA, beardies need UVA AND UVB. So, since you have the Repti-Sun tube, that is a good bulb so no worries with using a household bulb for the heat bulb.

The temps of the 40 gallon tanks depends on the ages of the beardies that are in them. Babies need higher temps than adults, so once I find out the ages, I can help further with that.

 

[misty82]

the was a couple months i think when i got the and i have only had them a coulpe weeks they r getting so big :} about 5 to 6 in long from nose to tip of tail

 

[diamc]

They're very small too then. The basking temp should be about 108 to 110 but no hotter and the cool side should be around 80 degrees.

 

[misty82]

ok then they r right easyer to do in bigger tanks.... aslo have u heard about a light called sun glow i think is wat it is called the guy at pet smart said it was new and it was good he said it take the place of all lights u will need ?

 

[misty82]

one of my beardie is about 3xs this size of the sick one she is growing fast and the other one probly dbl the sick on