hey wow the petshops around you seem to be very stupid, well u had the basic ideas bearded dragons love it hot, as logn as they can cool down i keep my basking temps 105( the live in the dessurts of australia) and a cool down of 80 in middle of tank and a hide box of 70 a water bowl is just a bad idea, it will buil bactireia and just plane and simple raise the humidity levels s much it can kill ur dragon from a respitory infection, misting is also not a bad method of water, but they get most of the water from greens, now as of kale, kale is good some times, they need a variaty of greens not just one what u make a beardie salad tr to have 3 types of greens and i say one non citrus fruit like 2 or so raseberrys my beardies love, as for cricets my male whos 19 inchs, gets 30 large cricketsevery two days, and greens in between the days, i never let him go with out eating for a day i find it messed up so my basic scedual is crickets monday, greens tuseday wensday, 10 wax worms and 20 crickets thrusday (friday and saturday he gets greens and on sunday i just make him a sunday platter with wax worms meal worms, and all his fav greens, as for uv i use a repti sun 10.0 best results ever, now, u want it to go into ur basking spot so try geting them close together, so get a strip and long as your tank,



heres a link of THE best beardie site to me



www.beautifuldragons.com



tell me if any of this helped u i hope it does

[ Show Entire Thread ]