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What Feedback do you have for my setup
Sand: CaCarbonate enriched (is that really a no-no?) Rocks: From the habitat where I caught them (the beach). I put medium sized crickets and mealworms in there. And they have all disappeared. I’m sure the young-uns haven’t eaten them, after reading messages in this forum. I’m going to the store to get an 18’’ 10.0 Reptisun UVB/UVA. I spray the wall of the tank and sticks with tap water. ?Is distilled/bottled water really needed? Link Link Link Link Thanks |
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| 09/20/09 05:53pm |
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Message To: Pinhead In reference to Message Id: 2074209 What Feedback do you have for my setup
Calcium Carbonate enriched sand is a no-no. Seriously. It clumps in their digestive tracts and forces an impaction, you can read about it in my earlier posts. If you MUST have sand, buy sand-box play-sand for a healthier and cheaper alternative. Rocks are great, but tiny or small rocks like that are hard to keep clean and allow many easy hiding spots for live food. The light your considering sounds like a great idea, you might want to just get the 18’ UVB 10.0 and get a separate mount for a UVA light, UVA’s can be produced with any ordinary household light but the color may be off in the lizard’s eyes. Buying the UVB specific light means replacing the lights less often. You actually are supposed to replace a UVB light every 12-18 months because the amount of UVB they produce reduces with the age of the light. Buying a UVB specific bulb increases the amount of time before its below what is healthy for your pet. NO- distilled and bottled water is not needed. Do you think they get bottled water outside? However, if you are in a city, you should consider filling a large tank or bucket with water and leaving it out for a few days before using it as a drinking supply or to mist the tank. Humans are idiots, especially americans, and as such we decided to put to very toxic chemicals into city waters and then accepted those city water standards all across our nation. Chlorine and Fluoride are toxic to all living things, including humans and can be found in almost any city drinking supply in America. We even made a happy little easily found and readily available compound called chlorine trifluoride which combines the two for that extra Uhmp in death. Apparently back during the Manhattan project some stuff went down, everyone got into a panic over ozone levels, and they predicted by 2050 that it’d be down to 7-8%, Everyone freaked. CFC are another deathly combo with these two toxic chemicals in it. So they made a decision, and as we always do, we stick with it and can’t admit we could have been wrong. We reached 7-8% back in the 80s, but it’s all hush-hush. As a human population, it’s estimated by some that we need to stop all forms of chlorine production in order to save our planet. Anyway, I’m getting off-topic, city water is a no-no, but it’s better than dehydration by a little. Normal water is yummy.  |
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