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I had a fire today from Allie's light fixture! It's going back to the Home Depot for an exchange. I'm going to use the incandescent lights instead of the halogen. Just until I can get a fixture that works for them. I got a new 100 watt halogen and it blew out and had a fire. It's all black on the top! Poor Allie. She went outside for some natural sun. She's still unsteady from her fall. (I think she's still healing from it.) But she's able to right herself now. I saw her lay on her side, think for a minute, then pushed herself up onto her belly. She may be a special needs dragon now because she's progressing slower than usual. She's still needing help feeding and went a small poo outside with soft urates. :/ Right now, I have a CHE on and a UVB on her. The CHE is 60 watts. It's not hot enough, but it's hot enough in the house. I smelled and touched the prongs to the cords to her other heating equipment. Cool to the touch, no hot wires. I'm not having a good day today I guess. I even smelled the outlet and looked at it. It's not burnt or anything.
OMG, how scary and so weird because I had a dream the other night that there was a fire in one of my surge protectors! Hope nothing else was damaged other than the light fixture.
I order my crickets from Josh's Frog's. I really like that place, they have real good customer service.
She ate a lot more than before. I gave her greens with a prickly pear fruit. It was a hit! She loved it. Ate almost all her greens tonight with help. She even swallowed them right there and then!
My bad. Surges come from the power source - outside the home. Surge protectors even out the electricity supplied to an appliance - like the uvb or the bulb receptacle. Surge protectors are a good thing - they keep appliances from exploding due to a spike in electrical current. Fixtures can fail for a number of reasons - including bad components or poor construction. Pls forgive me if im coming across like a know it all - I just wanta share what i do know. (Knowledge is power)
Oh that's ok. There was a problem with the fixture before the fire. It was flickering even before it all went up into flame. It stunk so bad that I thought the outlet was bad and so were everything else. It was so hot upstairs, I didn't have to use a heat light. Just the UVB and the 60 watt CHE.
She's not given me a poo recently. So I'm hydrating her since she feels dehydrated and given her some baby food prunes to help her out. She was trying to go and nothing came out. I have given her a dose of prunes and several syringe full of baby juice-Apple. It was a hit.
Ok. I got a new fixture and intense basking bulb, 100 watt. Hopefully that's strong enough to provide a hot basking spot for her. Her basking spot is collapsible and I was able to give her something taller.