Thank you so much for all your help! The beardie is mainly my daughters responsibility but for now we are both learning how to take care of him/her. She is deathly afraid of anything that looks remotely like a roach. If we stick to crickets,silkworms,superworms as his main insect diet will that be ok instead of getting the Dubia?
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Please help with baby beardie
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Patsy, I read your posts on the first timers and I noticed you mentioned that the night temperature should stay in the 60's inside the tank. Did I understand correct? Our house temperature went down to the 50's this night and his tank was going down to the 50's as well. I put on the ceramic heat lamp and it went up to 80. This is way too much as I understand correct? Tank for now is 20gallons and using a 60w ceramic heat lamp. Should I get a lower W ceramic heat lamp or instead get a dimmer?
I apologize for all the questions! I'm reading everything you suggested but just want to make sure I understand correctly.
I apologize for all the questions! I'm reading everything you suggested but just want to make sure I understand correctly.
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that's too cold... nighttime temps can go down to 65F below that use the CHE. Are you using the none light CHE?? you could try the dimmer and see if you can bring up the temp without going up too much.. we find we have to play around with watts to find what works for the viv. My 2 night temps go down to low 70's (but I have chronic immune issues so my body doesn't tolerate the cold so our house stays around 73)
Hdrydr31 is right with her answer. Nighttime times can go down to 65 degrees anything lower needs a CHE. Ideally you want the temp to be in the around 70 at night. With the weather changing and it's still to early for us to turn the heat on, my boys tank has gotten down to 64 a few nights and he's been just fine.
I would get a dimmer for the CHE.
