I work at a locally owned, small pet store and we had someone bring in a couple baby beardies almost 2 weeks ago, and I decided I wanted one. Never having had a reptile before I started reading ALOT, and found this discussion forum the best source of info. I finally got the tank to the right temps and in a livable condition so I brought my beardie home last night. I dont have a UVB bulb yet because my store didnt have one on the shelf, and I get everything at cost, so the order comes in tomorrow with my reptisun 10.0 and I will get it up. I havent named it yet, Im leaning towards Falkor but Reptar is still in the mix. Anywho, this is my beardie, and Ill get pictures of the light bar I built and the basking/ climbing spot I built tonight too.
Im using a zoomed 100 watt standard bulb for the heat and a regular flood bulb for general light/ heat on the cool side. The basking ares is right at 102 and the cool side about 83, and gets to 65-68 at night, using a digital probe thermometer(you can see the probe in the pic just because I was so worried about bringing the little guy home I was monitoring the temps all night. Its a 40 gal tank, I think a breeder tank, measures 36x18x16, I have about 1 foot sectioned off so he is not overwhelmed with the size of it, as well as covered 3 sides of the tank so that only the front is open. Im Feeding crickets and mustard greens/ yellow squash so far. I have some phoenix worms ordered and should be here tomorrow. And like I said will have the 24" reptisun 10.0 UVB flourescent bulb in tomorrow.
Question though, do I need to keep feeding calcium with D3 with the uvb bulb and phoenix worms, or can I cut that out?
Im using a zoomed 100 watt standard bulb for the heat and a regular flood bulb for general light/ heat on the cool side. The basking ares is right at 102 and the cool side about 83, and gets to 65-68 at night, using a digital probe thermometer(you can see the probe in the pic just because I was so worried about bringing the little guy home I was monitoring the temps all night. Its a 40 gal tank, I think a breeder tank, measures 36x18x16, I have about 1 foot sectioned off so he is not overwhelmed with the size of it, as well as covered 3 sides of the tank so that only the front is open. Im Feeding crickets and mustard greens/ yellow squash so far. I have some phoenix worms ordered and should be here tomorrow. And like I said will have the 24" reptisun 10.0 UVB flourescent bulb in tomorrow.
Question though, do I need to keep feeding calcium with D3 with the uvb bulb and phoenix worms, or can I cut that out?