JohnW61622
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- Beardie name(s)
- El Jefe
Hello we recently got our bearded a week and half ago and absolutely love him/her! I never knew how sweet and spunky these little guys could be, it’s adorable! We started out with a 40 gallon tank knowing we will switch to at least at 120 in the future but wanted to get the hang of things before moving to such a large enclosure and so far I’m glad we did. To start we first tried using the Eco Earth mix and really liked the way it looked as well as smelled but read about them gettin impacted easily. We now have changed to paper towels (Viva they’re nice and soft lol) for his/her safety. As of now I have two Flukers basking bulbs one 75w the other 100w and one coil UVB light. I AM going today to buy a new UVB T8 fixture as I have read and been told that the coils do not provide enough UVB light especially through the screen. Another battle we have had is humidity. It ranges about 35-45 (95F-100F basking side temp) day and 55-65 (75-80F) at night. We keep the enclosure in my bedroom for supervision purposes (children and cats) so I don’t think that’s the issue. I’ve also seen where the analog meters are not very good and can be inaccurate so when I get the light today I will also be gettin a new meter. I remove water bowl at night. I have a fan at the top of the enclosure to pull air out from the cool side of tank and keep air flow moving, I’ve also added a rice bag as of this morning. Any other ideas to help keep humidity down? Other than being stubborn on eating his/her salads eating has been good as well as sometimes drinking from the water bowl but prefers to do so at bath time. For the salads we’re going to try some bee pollen, we recently added more color than just lots of greens and that has seem to help just not as much as I would like. Potties have been almost daily minus a hold during the day and went over night one time. However this morning’s poo was interesting, it almost seems as if he didn’t digest his butternut squash very well because it came out very much same in color. I read on here today that you should shave your veggies and not dice small like the pet store told us so we will definitely try to do that today and from now on! Is there anything else I could do to help that process. He/she always has a heat source day or night (at night there is a heat pad under tank on warm side he/she lays on at times. I’ll attach a picture in second comment to spare the ones just looking at the tank pics 
. Thank you all ahead of time for any help or advice you give. Any questions for me I’ll try to respond as fast as possible
. Thank you all ahead of time for any help or advice you give. Any questions for me I’ll try to respond as fast as possible 
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