uvb too close?

[dooshie]

hey i just got an amazing new dragin from mike "sunshinedragons.com" and i put him in a 20 long i got a uvb from home depot and hung it inside the tank. is this too close to my baby bd?? "its like 4 inches from him"

its a zoomed uvb 10.0 should i go to a 5.0???
aside from that hes eating like a champ and ill put more pics up soon

 

[diamc]

He's a cute little guy. Actually, it is too close. It should be 6 to 8" from him. Can you put it on the top of the screen and right behind the basking light instead? Are you using a bright white basking bulb? What is the wattage of the heat bulb and what are the basking & cool side temps? Are you using either a temp gun or digital with long wire & probe end? It's very hard to get the temps right in such a small tank.

 

[Ruby2uesday]

Oh he's a cutie! I'm planning on getting a sunshine dragon too! just wanted to say, CONGRATS!

 

[dooshie]

He's a cute little guy. Actually, it is too close. It should be 6 to 8" from him. Can you put it on the top of the screen and right behind the basking light instead? Are you using a bright white basking bulb? What is the wattage of the heat bulb and what are the basking & cool side temps? Are you using either a temp gun or digital with long wire & probe end? It's very hard to get the temps right in such a small tank.

Okay so it is too close to him. Okay yeah because he's been closing his one eye way too much and for no apparent reason so, I figured that. What if I got a 5.0 uvb instead? right now and the fixture is rigged in there pretty well and i'd hate to take the full amount of uvb away from him, cutting it in half by putting it over the screen.

Right now, he has a zoomed blue daylight 100watts, but i have it on a dimmer so it stays at probably like a 75watt temp all the time, it's between 100 and 104 so I dont think that's too warm for him. On the cool side it's between 80 and 83. is that too high, do you think? Lol, I havent had a baby like this in a while. Scarlet's ginormous compared to him.

Also, the first day we brought him home he ate like a champ. pw's, dubia's, carrots.. Now, he doesnt want to eat anything really. he'll take like 2 or 3 and go back and bask. So today for lunch i gave him a baby, baby super worm and he ate it. I threw 2 more baby supers in there and he didnt want anything to do with them. Could the uvb being too close to him effect his eating?

Thanks so much for your help. I really appreciate it.

Here's a quick pic of them together.

Scarlet aand Mario hehe. They're so cute!!

 

[dooshie]

Oh he's a cutie! I'm planning on getting a sunshine dragon too! just wanted to say, CONGRATS!

Really!? Mike really is awesome. And he actually HANDLES his dragons, unlike some other breeders. He takes really good care of them. Even the hatchlings arent afraid of people holding them. Lol, my boyfriend and me, we envy his lifestyle. He stays home all day and plays with his dragons. tell me your not envious! He's a great person though, he really is. Nothing but good things to say about this guy. He's great with them. One thing we weren't aware of was that he actually bred Scarlet. We brought her up to his house when we went to get the baby and he was like, "holy, ****? she was one of mine!" haha. Turns out he gad given east coast dragons 10 hatchlings around about the time we had got her, and we got her from east coast, and he recognized her tangerine beard lol. That was pretty awesome.