acidburn01
Sub-Adult Member
- Beardie name(s)
- Toothless
As I've mention, Nova has been on the skids lately. Not eating, scratching like *crazy* to get out, etc. Well, ever since yesterday, she's been... scared.? Almost like something scared her. She's constantly dark, streaked up and her beard dark and she *clings* to us for dear life and just isn't super active and not scratching to get out anymore. She will still eat a few worms and I'm not sure about her salad, she throws it everywhere all the time.
We have her in a stacked 4x2x2 tank from dubia. (A cabinet, her tank, a divider, toothless' tank) and her tank being on the bottom. We have a t5 12% desert uvb tube and a 100watt thrive basking bulb. We have to put the uvb on the mesh because it didn't come with any brackets to hang it, for some reason. We are thinking adjusting her lighting to be closer to perfect would help her behavior. So here's the problem, the 150 watt is too hot, both inside and on the mesh. (We can't raise it because of the divider) the 100 watt is too hot hanging inside her tank and not hot enough on top. We tried a 50 watt, not hot enough, neither is a 25w. What can we do to make her basking/ambient temp warmer.? Right now, with the 100w on the mesh, the basking sits at 95 and the ambient 85-90.
We have her in a stacked 4x2x2 tank from dubia. (A cabinet, her tank, a divider, toothless' tank) and her tank being on the bottom. We have a t5 12% desert uvb tube and a 100watt thrive basking bulb. We have to put the uvb on the mesh because it didn't come with any brackets to hang it, for some reason. We are thinking adjusting her lighting to be closer to perfect would help her behavior. So here's the problem, the 150 watt is too hot, both inside and on the mesh. (We can't raise it because of the divider) the 100 watt is too hot hanging inside her tank and not hot enough on top. We tried a 50 watt, not hot enough, neither is a 25w. What can we do to make her basking/ambient temp warmer.? Right now, with the 100w on the mesh, the basking sits at 95 and the ambient 85-90.