Good cage setup?

[Nolankun]

Hello, I just want to make sure I am doing everything right!
I just got my guy, I believe he is around 1 year old. I got him at a local pet shop, where he was dropped off by his previous owners.

I want to make sure I have a good setup because I'm very scared of MBD. Under the basking bulb it goes up to around 115, and the cool side is about 80. The lighting is a T5 uvb bulb and a 100 watt basking bulb.

I feed him once or twice a day. Crickets, Collard Greens with Super Worms. He goes poop about every other day.

He started laying on his belly not holding his body up at all which concerned me but I thought it might be because I just moved his tank. I sometimes take him out of his tank and he will run around!

Anyway is this all good?

 

[Sadie]

Hello, I just want to make sure I am doing everything right!
I just got my guy, I believe he is around 1 year old. I got him at a local pet shop, where he was dropped off by his previous owners.

I want to make sure I have a good setup because I'm very scared of MBD. Under the basking bulb it goes up to around 115, and the cool side is about 80. The lighting is a T5 uvb bulb and a 100 watt basking bulb.

I feed him once or twice a day. Crickets, Collard Greens with Super Worms. He goes poop about every other day.

He started laying on his belly not holding his body up at all which concerned me but I thought it might be because I just moved his tank. I sometimes take him out of his tank and he will run around!

Anyway is this all good?

Your tank looks really low-- the UVB is going to be too strong for him so I would take the basking decor piece out from under it and get a distance of 8-10 inches for it being on the screen -- and I would look at getting a bigger tank 120 gallon you want a 4x2x2 tank --- the surface basking temps should not be over 100 - you want it 95-100 taken w/ a digital probe thermometer -- get two of them one for the cool side and one for your surface basking temp -- analogs are only good for ambient -- hes a year old feed fresh salads every day and crickets 2-3 times per week-

 

[Nolankun]

Your tank looks really low-- the UVB is going to be too strong for him so I would take the basking decor piece out from under it and get a distance of 8-10 inches for it being on the screen -- and I would look at getting a bigger tank 120 gallon you want a 4x2x2 tank --- the surface basking temps should not be over 100 - you want it 95-100 taken w/ a digital probe thermometer -- get two of them one for the cool side and one for your surface basking temp -- analogs are only good for ambient -- hes a year old feed fresh salads every day and crickets 2-3 times per week-

Thank you very much.
I have ordered a 120 gallon (4x2x2) and it should be arriving this week. I've also purchased a infrared thermometer gun to take proper temperatures, his basking area now ranges from 90 to 103- ( directly under, couldnt go lower ) and I try to give him a mix of Collard & Mustard greens everyday. I'm just having trouble getting to eat the greens, I found putting acouple super worms underneath the greens will give it more attention and he'll eat it, do you have anymore ideas on how to get him to eat his greens? I changed to giving him about 12 crickets every other day. (They are 3/4")

 

[Nolankun]

Thank you very much.
I have ordered a 120 gallon (4x2x2) and it should be arriving this week. I've also purchased a infrared thermometer gun to take proper temperatures, his basking area now ranges from 90 to 103- ( directly under, couldnt go lower ) and I try to give him a mix of Collard & Mustard greens everyday. I'm just having trouble getting to eat the greens, I found putting acouple super worms underneath the greens will give it more attention and he'll eat it, do you have anymore ideas on how to get him to eat his greens? I changed to giving him about 12 crickets every other day. (They are 3/4")

The basking temps are across the log.
I also took out the UVB reflector so it is not as strong, and adjusted so it is not across the entire cage only towards the back

 

[Sadie]

The basking temps are across the log.
I also took out the UVB reflector so it is not as strong, and adjusted so it is not across the entire cage only towards the back

W/ out the reflector it wont be as strong as you said but the rays will be going all over the tank - the reflector is to direct the UVB rays downward toward him and increase the rays -- so please watch the behavior w/ it being out - the UVB is going to effect the appetite - if your having issues w/ him now it may get worse and probably not any better - they wont eat if the temps and UVB are off - the temps tho sound fine - your going to want to put that reflector back in the fixture when the 4x2x2 comes --- its going to need to go inside the tank -- its going to be too high for the fixture to sit on top --- also he will go thru relocation stress when you move him effecting the appetite once again