Hey all,
Sorry for the long post I'm a new Mama and this is my first Beardie (also I talk a lot in RL so I find it hard to edit )
I work somewhere that has a 9-year-old bearded dragon and I fell in love with him so I got my own! about a week and a half ago.
I've done so much research and am constantly looking things up. The guy I got him from is an amazing small business reptile shop owner in our town and is so amazing he always answers all my questions. However, I just want some reassurance! I'm kind of making myself nutty by constantly obsessing and stressing over him.
His name is Toothless, we are pretty sure he's a he. He's we believe 2 - 3 months and is a translucent.
He's eating great about 10 - 12 crickets a day, in sessions of 3. So breakfast 4, lunch 4 ...etc. After no interest in greens for a few days, about 5 days in he loves his collard greens.
He's pooping great.
He seems relatively happy, he's not a huge fan of being held but we're giving him time to adjust and trying to get him used to it in very small increments. He tolerates his baths and we do about 2 a week for a max of 5 minutes because he doesn't love it and I don't want to make him hate it.
His sheds seem to be going well.
I'm just concerned about his lighting.
We have everything.
60 ish gallon tank with a mesh top.
T5 High Output UVB light that runs the span of the tank. minus a few inches on each side from Zoo Med. I believe it's 36".
We have a 100 W basking light
as well as a 150 ceramic heat lamp, that we don't always use but sometimes do to keep it a bit warmer.
His cool side is around 79 - 80 and he rarely hangs out there.
Now his basking spot is a bunch of branch-type things and possibly on top of his hide rock and hammock.
There are three branches he uses to hang out on sleep etc. And they are directly under his basking light. Pictures attached.
However, they never get up to 110. I do have a temp gun so I believe it's fairly accurate.
His rock gets to 92 which he uses to hang out on for small periods sometimes.
The one he hangs out on to sleep is around 95 - 98.
The other branches he sits on are 89 - 90.
His hammock is about 90.
I know a couple of degrees difference isn't bad but if it's supposed to be 110 minimum that's about 20 degrees different!
Do I need a higher wattage?
I mean he seems fine but I want him to be perfect and happy.
Thanks for reading, let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions.
Sorry for the long post I'm a new Mama and this is my first Beardie (also I talk a lot in RL so I find it hard to edit )
I work somewhere that has a 9-year-old bearded dragon and I fell in love with him so I got my own! about a week and a half ago.
I've done so much research and am constantly looking things up. The guy I got him from is an amazing small business reptile shop owner in our town and is so amazing he always answers all my questions. However, I just want some reassurance! I'm kind of making myself nutty by constantly obsessing and stressing over him.
His name is Toothless, we are pretty sure he's a he. He's we believe 2 - 3 months and is a translucent.
He's eating great about 10 - 12 crickets a day, in sessions of 3. So breakfast 4, lunch 4 ...etc. After no interest in greens for a few days, about 5 days in he loves his collard greens.
He's pooping great.
He seems relatively happy, he's not a huge fan of being held but we're giving him time to adjust and trying to get him used to it in very small increments. He tolerates his baths and we do about 2 a week for a max of 5 minutes because he doesn't love it and I don't want to make him hate it.
His sheds seem to be going well.
I'm just concerned about his lighting.
We have everything.
60 ish gallon tank with a mesh top.
T5 High Output UVB light that runs the span of the tank. minus a few inches on each side from Zoo Med. I believe it's 36".
We have a 100 W basking light
as well as a 150 ceramic heat lamp, that we don't always use but sometimes do to keep it a bit warmer.
His cool side is around 79 - 80 and he rarely hangs out there.
Now his basking spot is a bunch of branch-type things and possibly on top of his hide rock and hammock.
There are three branches he uses to hang out on sleep etc. And they are directly under his basking light. Pictures attached.
However, they never get up to 110. I do have a temp gun so I believe it's fairly accurate.
His rock gets to 92 which he uses to hang out on for small periods sometimes.
The one he hangs out on to sleep is around 95 - 98.
The other branches he sits on are 89 - 90.
His hammock is about 90.
I know a couple of degrees difference isn't bad but if it's supposed to be 110 minimum that's about 20 degrees different!
Do I need a higher wattage?
I mean he seems fine but I want him to be perfect and happy.
Thanks for reading, let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions.