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Originally Posted by Kmlutz
Blaze is about four inches long and the pet store told me he is around three months old but were unable to give me hatch date. I have him in a 20 gallon aquarium that came with the juvenile bearded dragon kit with lights, fixtures, and food bowls, calcium, commercial food that I do not feed him. I feed him three times a day. He seems to eat about four to five in a 15 minute period and I take out the leftovers. I say seems because he will not eat in front of me. Actually Ate one in front of me yesterday! I also put kale and shredded carrots in daily sprinkled with calcium. Also sprinkle crickets daily. The lights I do not know specifics but on the cool side of tank I have food bowl and UVB bulb shines above. It is a ZooMed coil bulb. The temperature on the cool side remains at about 82. On warm side I have a rock directly under basking light with a log connecting the rock to near the back top corner of the tank allowing him to get within 6 inches of his light and the rock sits at about 10 inches away. basking bulb is also ZooMed. I use the reptile carpet. The humidity usually stays at about 30%. Warm side stays between 100-105 during day. At night goes down to 75-80.
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A 4" dragon is around a week or 2. at 3 months they can be 8-12" or more. stop feeding the carrots until he gets bigger.
Cut the feedings back to twice a day, you will notice him feeding more aggressively feeding twice a day.
Change the cage carpet to paper towels. their nails will get caught in the carpet and they may lose them, you can change to sand when they are big juvies/sub adults.
The coil bulb is a compact florescent, lots of talk about these blinding beardies. I like a zoo med florescent tube for beardies.