I’m a bit new to BD’s and herps in general, though i’ve been learning a ton from my herper friends here at home. :) Quick question: If you were going to get a new animal and set up an enclosure, what would it be like? What size tank would you use? What substrate, furniture, lamps, feed, etc? MVB’s or Fluorescents? Plastic, acrylic or glass enclosure?

1. it would be nice.lol

2.if its a baby i would use a 20 gallon. an adult needs no less than a 40 gallon breeder.

3.substrates for babies include, newspaper, paper towels, reptile carpet. adults include wheat bran, those listed above, shelf liner, and alphalpha pellets. NO sand. its a TERRIBLE substrate.

4. they need a basking branch within 4-10 inches of the uvb/mvb.

5. lamps can be either an mvb by itself and a heater if it gets cold in your house, or a uvb, a flood lamp, and a heat lamp(if it gets cold)

6. you can give crix,c*ckroaches, super worms, wax worms, butter worms, no meal worms. and for veggies go to here for a list of appropriate food stuffs. foolow the color coding.

7. etc? um, they need baths and mistings, very friendly, and some other stuff.lol. be more specific i can help you.

8. mvb, or uvb with flood lamp.

9. glass. the other two scratch to easy as beardies don’t understand the concept of glass and plastic so when they hit it they are constantly trying to get over it and scratch anything other than glass.