I need bearded dragon housing pics :D

Hey everyone
I have an assignment to do over the easter hols and I need your help.

I have to talk about all the different equipments like lighting and heating in a bearded dragon enclosure. I have to design on an A3 poster.. draw a tank and like label and explain alot about the set up.

I know all the basics about what they need within their tanks:
- heat light, which one i do not know lol
- UVB light
- light fixtures
- the cage thing to go around the bulb so they dont burn themselves.
- cork bark, wood, deco stuff
- rock to sit on while basking
- food bowl for fresh greens
- water large
- hide

am i missing anything? please can someone explain all the temps and lighting for me

and.. it would be really helpful if anyone who owns bearded dragons.. especially sam to post a pic of their tank for me to model my tank design from

• this video we were shown in exotics in september.. is it a good thing to use for answers? http://www.reptilecentre.com/blog/2009/08/bearded-dragon-vivarium-set-up-video/
  

thankyouuuu

hiya,

Set-up wise you need a 3 or 4ft vivarium with a UVB 10 stripe light and motor or UVB 10 compact bulb with screw fitting, ceramic heat lamps with ceramic fitting are best with a pulse thermostat, you dont normally need a light cage with them as they usually move when they get to hot, i dont advise using plants in with them as mine eat them even if they are plastic lol, branches are great for climbing but as they get older they dont really climb they just lay on the floor, rocks are good and cork bark, temp wise my thermostat probe is in the middle of the viv and set at 88c/32f.

i'll have to look for some pics of my old set-up for you as my girls are currently being kept in seperate vivs on news paper with just a water bowl as my 8year gizmo has a respitory infection and has to be kept on her own.

i'll take a look at the video link later on when i got a bit more time and i'll see if my mum can send me some pics of her set-up as hers is currently set-up better than mine lol

haha thankyou for your help. I really appreciate it =]

I will write all of this down later when I have more time

&& I can't wait to see the photos of the set-ups.

Aww, poor gizmo i hope he/she gets well soon.

the assigment also mentions temporary set-ups? do you know anything about those..

thats ok i dont mind helping where i can lol, my other female bearded dragon called tiny was sat on the keyboard of my laptop when i first replyied to you lol.

this is my male bearded dragon(since sold him) in half a 6ftx2ftx2ft viv that had ceramic heating.

this is a similar set-up i use for my bearded drangons but it has leopard lizards in it in this pic lol, this set-up shows the use of a compact UVB bulb.

this set-up altho its housing a frill neck dragon who is sat by the water bowl in the pic and this is the same set-up i used for baby bearded dragons, this set-up has a UVB stripe light up at the roof.

This one is a basic set-up with a heat bulb and stripe light but only has a food and water bowl in it, plus the 2girls and my rankins dragon lol.


i'll look into the tempory set-ups for you, how long have i got until your dead line for this assignment? as could ask my vet on friday when gizmo has her check up.
Gizmo should be fine, she's got a week of anti-biotics left to take and she can breath without opening her mouth and sleep on flat surface again where she did have to sleep with her head proped up on a folded towel bless her.

Thankyouuu!! for the photos.

You don't mind if I save them and use them in my assignments in exotics management, do you? because I have a bearded dragon dietry care booklet assignment soon and stuff.

The assignment deadline is after the easter hols. I start the easter hols in a week.. and I have 3 weeks hols to do the assignment.. plus all my other assignments lol

thankyou again for helping me im soo thankful

I hope gizmo is well soon =]

awww i wish I had a bearded dragon. They seem to love attention

of course i dont mind if you save them and use them for your assignments, im annoyed as i lost aload of photos of that big 6ftx2ftx2ft set-up in its full glory when i first did it 4years ago and now i nolonger have the set-up as it takes up to much space lol

i'll ask my vet on friday about the tempory set-ups as i've got time lol.

thats ok i dont mind helping you when and where i can lol.

I hope Gizmo is well again soon too as she was the first bearded dragon i got

they do make great pets if you get a lovely friendly one, and mine make a point of making loads of noise scratching the glass to get attention and come out for a run around

thankyou. i wish there was a vet near me that knew alot about exotics.. the closest exotics specialist is manchester.. about an hour drive away

awww how cute =] upload more pics of them I love photos!

i'll sort out somemore pics later on to upload of my bearded dragons for you.

my vet is 20mins away and he's soon opening his own pratice even nearer so i wont have far to go at all to see him.

Even tho your vet is so far away Sarah I'm sure if you called and talked to someone there and mentioned you were collecting info for a school project they would be more than happy to assist you. Something I can add even tho I don't own a dragon is that the basking feature should be about a foot above from his basking platform. Don't forget to include lots of good info on their dietary needs, supplimenting needs, substrait and habitat, and soaking requirements.

This looked like a pretty good site for beardie info http://www.beardeddragon.org/articles/caresheet/ be sure to check out their discussion forums as that is usually where the best info is

thanks kel.

my assignment isnt about all the other husbandry requirements.. its just about housing. I have to display that I could set up a bearded dragon tank and know all the equipment that they require. Its only for my 'practical animal handling and husbandry' lesson.

what did your vet say?

not been to the vets yet, the vets is on friday at 2pm so will post what ever i find out on here when i get back for you.

thankyouuu very much

thats ok

hiya,
really sorry i forgot to ask the vet today about temp housing should be seeing him in 3days times will ask him then.

that's okay.. I was just wondering what temperature you keep your bearded dragon at? I've done my assignment..and draw the bearded dragon set-up. I just need to add a temperature to the digital thermometer I have drawn

i think my thermostat is set to 88f, you'll have take a pic of your assignment and put it on here for us to see

haha okay. I will do that tomorrow. the assignment states that I have to draw a permenant or temporary set up for a bearded dragon. that I must annotate the drawing to show all the features that they need.

I have drawn a picture of the tank (im not a very good drawer lol), numbered all the items in the tank and formed a list underneath to list all the items. and then i have explained substrate, heating, thermostat, deco. there wasn't much space left lol

Here is the picture of the bearded dragon set-up that I drew for my assignment lol its not very good



1) substrate: reptile sand
2) a hide
3) a piece of wood for climbing on
4) a piece of cork bark (behind the hide)
5) rocks for sitting and basking on
6) a food bowl for fresh greens
7) a water bowl
a UVB light
9) UV light fixture
10) a digital thermometer
11) a ceramic heat emitter
12) a light bulb & fixture
13) a probe connected to a thermostat
14) a cage around the heat emitter to protect the bearded from getting burned

looks good hope you get good grades for it