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Well, I was wondering if I bought two cb baby beardies would a 55 gallon or 50 long tank be enough for like 2-3 months to house them?

Any input is good... also what kinda substrate is good for babies.. I heard sand is bad for young dragons because they can eat it and it can cause impaction.

-- Paul

It should be but you'll have to separate them before they hit 5 months old. Good substrates for babies are paper towels, shelfliner, and newspaper.

Sean
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Heart Mountain Herps

Thanks for the advice... also why split them up at around 5 months? I plan On seperating in about 3 months..but why around 5 months.. just wanna learn some info :-D

Also is there some kinda uvb bulb for a round heatlamp type of clamp light fixture...instead of the tube lights...

-- Paul

First the UVB thing, yes there is but they're not as effective as the tube lights or the MVB's. They're called UVB coil lights, if you do a search on them here you'll probably find more info.
The reason I say that they need separated by 5 months old is because that's when they can start hitting sexual maturity and you don't want accidental breeding at that age.

Sean
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Heart Mountain Herps

Oh thats what I thought about the 5 months thing...

And the coil lights are the the crappy ones...or the good ones... ill just go with the tube lights... and recommendations for a site or store with the light fixtures and lights I need.. Im getting the tank this weekend and looking to see what fixtures I need.. besides the UVB I just need like a 60 watt heating lamp bulb in one of those black dome shapped light fixtures right?

and I heard repti-sun 5.0 or what ever is good..what do you think?

-- Paul

Ya reptisun 5.0 is a fine bulb. In addition to it yes you will need a heat lamp of some sort, I'd save your money and pick up a spot light or flood light at walmart for this.

Sean
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Heart Mountain Herps

Amen to that! Just as an experiment I bought flood lights from lowes to day for 3.33 a piece that were rated at 65 watts. I put it in place of all my cages and found that it raised the basking temp in the cages that had 75 watt reptile bulbs from ripoffsmart. I am going to return these overpriced bulbs tomorrow. The only cage, my juvicage that is 3x3 that it was actually lower temp was when I replaced it with the 150 watt basking bulb and that only dropped it 7 degree's. (I like to keep this cage 80 on the cool side and 115 on the hot side for the young ones) I also buy my lamps from lowes too! They are 50% cheaper as well.

ummm do you have a model or whatnot of the flood lights you bought... i never thought of that lol... so you think I will need two? or are they on the bigger side...or what...and the cage is a 50long or 55 gallon...dont know what im buying yet...well anyways do I need uvb lights across the whole top of the tank? like for side to side or just a majority of it..

-- Paul

I've been switched to these for a while. Heat is heat. Just be sure to buy one marked halogen flood. 90w is the max i've found but they have the same output as a 150w regular reptile bulb.
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My Site

That's exactly right. They look the same and put out the same amount of light also!