Lighting? New dragon mom

[Kratos'Mom]

I adopted my 3 year old female dragon about a week ago. I know you need UV lights and heating lights but not sure what size/brands to buy. I have a good heating lamp now by ZooMed but my UV light broke after a few days. Any suggestions?? It's a 40 gallon tank with a metal mesh lid. Any help is greatly appreciated !! Also, if anyone has suggestions on feeding schedule/amounts? She won't eat crickets and I'm having a hard time getting a number of how many worms/roaches she should eat. She is also fed greens every morning. THANK YOU!!

 

[laswabbie]

Take a look at Hdrydr31's pinned post above. It gives a very thorough "quick guide" on lighting, heating and many other topics.

BTW, welcome to the forum!

 

[Hdrydr31]

I adopted my 3 year old female dragon about a week ago. I know you need UV lights and heating lights but not sure what size/brands to buy. I have a good heating lamp now by ZooMed but my UV light broke after a few days. Any suggestions?? It's a 40 gallon tank with a metal mesh lid. Any help is greatly appreciated !! Also, if anyone has suggestions on feeding schedule/amounts? She won't eat crickets and I'm having a hard time getting a number of how many worms/roaches she should eat. She is also fed greens every morning. THANK YOU!!

Most of us use the Reptisun T5 HO 10.0 as it will go thru the wire mesh.. petmountain.com usually has good deals on their set ups
In her state right now I would go slow in her eating since she is pretty skinny and you don't want to make her sick. I would try and feed her 2-3 times a day on the bugs nice meaty dubia, supers, phoenix worms, silkworms, hornworms (good for hydration) butterworms, waxworms....The amount that they will eat in a 10-15 min period..offer greens all day... Make sure your doing supplements as well...
If she's not eating you may need to kinda get her going by making a slurry and feeding with syringe... you can use any of the following: water or pedialite, mash up into a thin enough mixture her greens, veggies, powders of probiotics/supplements (calcium/multivit/alfalfa/dandelion/bee pollen)
I will give my 2 a slurry once a week just to get extra goodies in them while in the bath as it can be messy...I will dribble it onto their noses and they will typically lick it up. My male doesn't like slurries so whatever I can get him to eat is fine as he is a great eater... My female loves when I give her slurries she will lick it up until she's done. and any messes dribble down her beard and into the water. easy clean up

hope that all helps and yep check out the link under some of our comments.