Bearded Dragon Heating Question

[Grogshla]

no need for red bulb. Please swap it for a normal basking light and switch all lights off over night

 

[Reptiles101]

+1 Fractal_Man & Grogshla

 

[harper1]

Again, don't use a red bulb. It's just bad husbandry.

Why is it bad for them..?

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I don't have heating for the babies at night apart from the red light i refuse to use a heat mat and have been told their temp isn't suppose to go below 24 ¤ at night .....so are you telling me this is not for babies?

 

[Grogshla]

they associate heat to the bright white of the sun. You should try and replicate this. Provide a white/cream coloured light as a basking spot. UVB tube is also needed.
The temp can go below 24. I would leave them overnight without heat unless your house temps fall below 15celcius. There should be no light at all on at night time. Keep it simple just like a nice normal sunny day..10 or so hours of sunshine. Otherwise you risk bothering their sleeping patterns which can stress them out. Your basking temp for babies should be 40-45degrees celcius.
If by the odd chance that there is a cold period of weather just put a small room heater and switch on for a few mins just to take the chill out of the air

 

[harper1]

My enclosure

This is my babies enclosure at the moment I am going to be getting a bigger enclosure soon

 

[Grogshla]

cool enclosure!! id just swap the red light for a normal basking bulb and the uvb you have is fine. Personally if it was my enclosure I would either move the uvb bulb closer to the basking bulb (too keep only one light source and also so they get the uvb rays whilst basking for heat).

 

[harper1]

Thanks they very much love their enclosure especially all their climbing sticks .