Somedudeonhisphone
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Well after about 12 years of caring for what I consider easy reptiles (crested geckos, gargoyle geckos, leachies) I've finally decided (and convinced my fiance) to get my first desert dweller.
I'm ready for the challenge and have been preparing for a good bit with research and enclosure setup, and on July 12th of this year I'm going to get my first Beardie from my local expo. Going to start with a young one preferably looking for a Male seeing as I have no interest in breeding.
So as with preparation I have about 2000 or so feeders being shipped to me soon, and I have access to fresh veggies . I have the tank pretty much setup aside from some additional furniture, but the lighting side of things was fun to learn and test. *Still waiting on my IR spot thermo and my thermostat*
Starting with the tank. My plan is to within a month or so buy his adult enclosure a Zen Habitat 4x2x2. However currently I'm starting small it's a 29 which is 30x12x18 and yes I realize the issues with the size of the enclosure and that it will be outgrown withing 2 months or less. That is completely fine, as it is not permanent at all.
I decided to go to as naturalistic as you can with a baby/juvie. All the stone is real found and collected by myself from the local mountains of Allegheny here in Pittsburgh.
In fact the main basking stone contains more than 4 fossils.
I went back and forth with substrate but in the end decided on a tightly woven reptile mat. Along with the main basking rock there are some other outcrop rocks. Totaling just over 50lbs in total. I do plan on adding some sort of aboreal hide/walking area. I'm just still thinking about what I'd like there.
I'm using a digital thermometer to measure the ambient basking them which seems to stick around 99 or so at the top of the rock which is about 8/9 inches from the bulb. Ambient tank seems to be 80 or so.
Also for lighting I'm using the new slim version of the 30" zoo med fixture along with the 24" reptisun 10.0 bulb.
For heat I'm running a standard 100 watt ceramic fixture along with the 100 watt exoterra basking spot bulb.
I'm trying to keep things simple for the moment while the dragons young. By the way I've scrubbed cleaned and heated the rocks they are clean and ready. Also I really need a background or something on the back of this tank my wall is bothering me haha.
I'd love to hear from the community here any tips
I'm ready for the challenge and have been preparing for a good bit with research and enclosure setup, and on July 12th of this year I'm going to get my first Beardie from my local expo. Going to start with a young one preferably looking for a Male seeing as I have no interest in breeding.
So as with preparation I have about 2000 or so feeders being shipped to me soon, and I have access to fresh veggies . I have the tank pretty much setup aside from some additional furniture, but the lighting side of things was fun to learn and test. *Still waiting on my IR spot thermo and my thermostat*
Starting with the tank. My plan is to within a month or so buy his adult enclosure a Zen Habitat 4x2x2. However currently I'm starting small it's a 29 which is 30x12x18 and yes I realize the issues with the size of the enclosure and that it will be outgrown withing 2 months or less. That is completely fine, as it is not permanent at all.
I decided to go to as naturalistic as you can with a baby/juvie. All the stone is real found and collected by myself from the local mountains of Allegheny here in Pittsburgh.
In fact the main basking stone contains more than 4 fossils.
I went back and forth with substrate but in the end decided on a tightly woven reptile mat. Along with the main basking rock there are some other outcrop rocks. Totaling just over 50lbs in total. I do plan on adding some sort of aboreal hide/walking area. I'm just still thinking about what I'd like there.
I'm using a digital thermometer to measure the ambient basking them which seems to stick around 99 or so at the top of the rock which is about 8/9 inches from the bulb. Ambient tank seems to be 80 or so.
Also for lighting I'm using the new slim version of the 30" zoo med fixture along with the 24" reptisun 10.0 bulb.
For heat I'm running a standard 100 watt ceramic fixture along with the 100 watt exoterra basking spot bulb.
I'm trying to keep things simple for the moment while the dragons young. By the way I've scrubbed cleaned and heated the rocks they are clean and ready. Also I really need a background or something on the back of this tank my wall is bothering me haha.
I'd love to hear from the community here any tips
