For a lil while now I have been doing research on what our next pet would be. I have been looking for local breeders and possibly attending a reptile show. I happen to be searching craiglist and typed in bearded dragon. One came up local and for a great rehoming price. I sent a few messages and it seemed that the animal had been well taken care of the owner just felt it was time to move on cause they did not have the time that they used to to take care of it. Works for me.
So few days ago we picked the beardie up. We got two lamps a 55 gallon aquarium as well as a 120 gallon aquarium. The lamp with the uvb bulb had broken when they brought the enclosure outside when I was picking up so I had to pick up a new bulb. (Mistake one) I had remembered reading that one of the repti bulbs was good and one was bad. I bought the bad one thinking it was the good one. I bought a reptiglo 10. uvb bulb. I hope it will be good until this weekend when I can go purchase another. If anyone thinks this is a ok bulb let me know before I spend another 15-30 dollars on another bulb. I am not worried about the price I just want the best bulb for our dragon.
The beardie we got is between 12-14 inches and was slightly angry when we brought him home. Gave us a few black beards and we were little questionable on how much handling he may have recieved. Today we let him sit in his nice new warm enclosure and this evening when I got off work he was happy to let me pick him up and spent about a hour sitting on my lap and walking around my couch with me.
I am going to post a few pics of him sitting on my lap as well as his enclosure.
The enclosure is 4x2x2 . I have a hide on on the cold end that is made out of tupperware. Home made cause I could not find anything in the store big enough for him. Other end we put a couple of rocks that we had boiled for our fish tanks that we never used in them. I boiled them again just for safe measure for about 3 hours. (Yes I forgot about them while spending time with the lizard.)
We plan on making a nice background soon.
Any help about enclosure ideas as well as lighting would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
So without further rambling here are few pics.
Enclosure
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Checking the camera out.
So few days ago we picked the beardie up. We got two lamps a 55 gallon aquarium as well as a 120 gallon aquarium. The lamp with the uvb bulb had broken when they brought the enclosure outside when I was picking up so I had to pick up a new bulb. (Mistake one) I had remembered reading that one of the repti bulbs was good and one was bad. I bought the bad one thinking it was the good one. I bought a reptiglo 10. uvb bulb. I hope it will be good until this weekend when I can go purchase another. If anyone thinks this is a ok bulb let me know before I spend another 15-30 dollars on another bulb. I am not worried about the price I just want the best bulb for our dragon.
The beardie we got is between 12-14 inches and was slightly angry when we brought him home. Gave us a few black beards and we were little questionable on how much handling he may have recieved. Today we let him sit in his nice new warm enclosure and this evening when I got off work he was happy to let me pick him up and spent about a hour sitting on my lap and walking around my couch with me.
I am going to post a few pics of him sitting on my lap as well as his enclosure.
The enclosure is 4x2x2 . I have a hide on on the cold end that is made out of tupperware. Home made cause I could not find anything in the store big enough for him. Other end we put a couple of rocks that we had boiled for our fish tanks that we never used in them. I boiled them again just for safe measure for about 3 hours. (Yes I forgot about them while spending time with the lizard.)
We plan on making a nice background soon.
Any help about enclosure ideas as well as lighting would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
So without further rambling here are few pics.
Enclosure
Upclose Pic
Checking the camera out.