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Originally Posted by Pampered pets
oh yes your right, ive just had a look and his bottow jaw does look overshot.
It didnt have a veyr good start, they said he was 12 months old by a friend said he wasnt big enough.
He was stone cold when i went to look at him fed on meal worms, i have him now in a four ft tank with a heat mat/and heat rock and proper UV light.
Im getting a heat lamp next week as i coudlnt work out how to attach one to the tank lid, his light before looked like the curly bulbs you put in the light socket, the energy saving ones???
I dust his bugs with a white powder, i ave only just got him eating greens this week, i feed mailny crickets with hoppers and this wek got meal worms.#
I gut load the bugs with a brown food from pets at home and i give them some clear gel stuff for water.
Is this ok?
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The curly bulb could be a compact UV bulb like this one....
Livefood UK Ltd.
Or it could be a energy saving bulb, which of course is insufficient for heating or lighting.
Have you got a fitting for the bulb yet? I would make this high priority. Beardies have their heat sensors on their heads and prefer their heat in a form of a light. So heating from underneath can cause over heating, as their sensors to tell them they are too hot is on their head.
I personally wouldn't use a heat rock either, for the same reason and they could burn.
If the white powder is limestone/calcium powder then that's OK, but he needs vitamins too, which is Nutrobal, which should be used 2 days out of seven - careful with this as you can over dose.
Not too sure what the brown food is..... but you can just use bran (weetabix) but you also need to feed them fresh greens too, as essentially that's what your beardie will eat.
I have never used the gel, just simply because they get enough moisture from veg.