2nd day of winter and none of my skinks or dragons are showing any interest in brumating ( up and basking this morning when my wife got out of bed to have her brekky ).
Swapped out the old 26W UVB150s (BTs) and 26W UVB200s (beardies) last night before I went to bed, and I think the skinks and beardies have all noticed. All up and basking at 8am , the beardies were very highly coloured so obviously enjoying the extra UVA and UVB and brighter white light.
I was naughty as I was tardy in replacing the UVB150s and UVB200s this time , should have replaced them on 25 May.
This is last set of 26W UVB200s , I am hoping to be mobile enough to build the new Beardie Mansion for Peppa and Toothless before the next schedule UVB200 and UVB150 renewal , and will be upgrading to Arcadia Slimline T5 reflector hoods with 12% 24W T5 Arcadia tubes and 80W Arcadia MVBs for the beardies (only the best for MY spikey children).
And all still hungry and active. Guess it must be too warm in our house with aircon running 24/7 and set to keep the house at about 24oC even overnight.... .... I don't mind .... I'd be at a loss if I didn't have my beardies and BTs to care for and spoil and interact with each day....
Back into the silkworms , splashed out and bought 100 mediums and smalls from a guy in Queensland, still using the blanched frozen mulberry leaves from Mar 2016.
Found if I lay some paper toweling over the ventilated 4L tub's lid , the aircon doesn't dry the leaves out and they stay soft (so far it's they've been in the tub since last Thursday and no mould and no deccicated leaves , allows air ventilation but re-tards deciccation of the blanched leaves) and the silkworms are happily munching away on them.
Each of my lizards is getting 2 medium silkworms (2inch long) each day with the greens and their daily cricket rations.
They all disappear the silkworms pretty quick. Only things that they like more are superworms (for the beardies) and cultivated escargots (for the bluetongues).
Swapped out the old 26W UVB150s (BTs) and 26W UVB200s (beardies) last night before I went to bed, and I think the skinks and beardies have all noticed. All up and basking at 8am , the beardies were very highly coloured so obviously enjoying the extra UVA and UVB and brighter white light.
I was naughty as I was tardy in replacing the UVB150s and UVB200s this time , should have replaced them on 25 May.
This is last set of 26W UVB200s , I am hoping to be mobile enough to build the new Beardie Mansion for Peppa and Toothless before the next schedule UVB200 and UVB150 renewal , and will be upgrading to Arcadia Slimline T5 reflector hoods with 12% 24W T5 Arcadia tubes and 80W Arcadia MVBs for the beardies (only the best for MY spikey children).
And all still hungry and active. Guess it must be too warm in our house with aircon running 24/7 and set to keep the house at about 24oC even overnight.... .... I don't mind .... I'd be at a loss if I didn't have my beardies and BTs to care for and spoil and interact with each day....
Back into the silkworms , splashed out and bought 100 mediums and smalls from a guy in Queensland, still using the blanched frozen mulberry leaves from Mar 2016.
Found if I lay some paper toweling over the ventilated 4L tub's lid , the aircon doesn't dry the leaves out and they stay soft (so far it's they've been in the tub since last Thursday and no mould and no deccicated leaves , allows air ventilation but re-tards deciccation of the blanched leaves) and the silkworms are happily munching away on them.
Each of my lizards is getting 2 medium silkworms (2inch long) each day with the greens and their daily cricket rations.
They all disappear the silkworms pretty quick. Only things that they like more are superworms (for the beardies) and cultivated escargots (for the bluetongues).