Hi
We have a wonderful new pet 'Elvis'. he's about 3 months old and I wanted to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.
Firstly I will say he's in a smaller viv at the moment but we will be getting a larger one v soon.
So I had a real prob with the temp and lighting. It seems there's so much conflicting advice. But I got a Arcadia pro T5 for sunlight and turn this off overnight. Then I got a habistat pulse proportional thermostat that connects to a ceramic heater E27 150w. I changed form a 100W as the viv didn't seem to be getting to a high enough temp. But now it's around 32-33 on his basking place. Is this right? as I'm not sure with this set up that I'll be able to achieve the higher temps needed for an adult?
On the food front. He has mainly cricks, dusted in calcium once a day and dusted in the vitamins twice a week. He has maybe 2-4 feeding sessions a day and sometimes eats loads, other times just a couple. He will eat lettuce and rocket too, but mainly when hand fed, though he has on a couple of occasions gone down to his food bowl, when i've dropped some in.
I have a small water bowl in there but I'm not sure he's drinking. He mainly waddles through it. I spray him 2-3 times week, but not sure he's that keen?
Also how much should he be handled. My kids are very gentle with him and he does seem to go really bright coloured when he's with them and when he's put into the viv he doesn't immediately jump off, so I guess he like it.
His colours change from dark to bright all the time and his tail is definitely duller than the rest of him, but not black.
is there anything i'm doing wrong or should be doing different?
thanks in advance.
Al
We have a wonderful new pet 'Elvis'. he's about 3 months old and I wanted to make sure I'm doing everything correctly.
Firstly I will say he's in a smaller viv at the moment but we will be getting a larger one v soon.
So I had a real prob with the temp and lighting. It seems there's so much conflicting advice. But I got a Arcadia pro T5 for sunlight and turn this off overnight. Then I got a habistat pulse proportional thermostat that connects to a ceramic heater E27 150w. I changed form a 100W as the viv didn't seem to be getting to a high enough temp. But now it's around 32-33 on his basking place. Is this right? as I'm not sure with this set up that I'll be able to achieve the higher temps needed for an adult?
On the food front. He has mainly cricks, dusted in calcium once a day and dusted in the vitamins twice a week. He has maybe 2-4 feeding sessions a day and sometimes eats loads, other times just a couple. He will eat lettuce and rocket too, but mainly when hand fed, though he has on a couple of occasions gone down to his food bowl, when i've dropped some in.
I have a small water bowl in there but I'm not sure he's drinking. He mainly waddles through it. I spray him 2-3 times week, but not sure he's that keen?
Also how much should he be handled. My kids are very gentle with him and he does seem to go really bright coloured when he's with them and when he's put into the viv he doesn't immediately jump off, so I guess he like it.
His colours change from dark to bright all the time and his tail is definitely duller than the rest of him, but not black.
is there anything i'm doing wrong or should be doing different?
thanks in advance.
Al