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Hey guys! Starting up my official art blog today, my personal blog has changed names to Scribbsy so feel free to follow me there for unorganized and un-themed posts. Feel free to check out my website evilscribbles.com for more art and contact info. 

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Hey! So I'm in the process of moving my beardies up to a bigger setup and I'm going to be using heat pads fro the first time, but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what device I should be looking for to control the temperature of the heat pads. From what I've found so far I think it's called a rheostat? I've found some specific for reptiles, but I seem to vaguely recall posts about being able to find a cheap device like this at home depot. Do you have any specific examples on hand?

Hello! You’re looking for a thermostat, but I think they’re also called rheostats. Not sure. Anyway-

The cheapest thermostat that is trustworthy (that I have heard of) is a Hydrofarm thermostat, which is $35 from amazon. 

Most of the time beardies don’t need under tank heaters, but I’m assuming you live in an area where it’s hard to keep up proper temps in the enclosure with just lights. I’d skip dimmers from home depot and so on, there’s really no way to regulate the temperature properly.

[reptile-talk]

Oh and I was also wondering if it would be okay to put heat mats under tile as opposed to under the tank? It's a 90 gallon so it would be a lot more hassle to get them situated underneath the whole thing. (and don't worry, they aren't being cohabitated, the tank has a divider)

You most certainly want them under the tank itself, putting it under the tile is a dangerous game- if anything malfunctioned your bearded dragon would be in a direct line of fire.

[reptile-talk]

So I've got two bearded dragons and I'm thinking about switching from crickets to dubias as a main food source. They make much easier targets for sticky tongues, and they don't seem to be able to squeeze out of cricket keepers like the crickets can. Do you know if they would be an appropriate substitute nutrition-wise? Some reptile stores have told me they are, but I though I should get some other opinions.

Dubias are great! No worries there, some people switch over from crickets entirely to dubias. 

[reptile-talk]

So my local vet used to have this beautiful huge snake room for just one Boa and I adored what they did because of the correct husbandry, but I hadn't visited in a while, and recently they changed it so that there are now 5 snakes being housed together. Two of them are boas and three are ball pythons. I REALLY want to get these guys into separate enclosures before somebody gets hurt or eaten, But I'm not sure how to approach the issue! I need them to listen but I'm scared they'll ignore me...

I'd probably suggest that ball pythons and boas need separate enclosures because of different husbandry needs, to start.

Then go ahead and try to tell them that you'd really hate to see their snakes get eaten alive/hurt by another of the same to get them further separated.

All you can do is bring it up, bring some sources from breeders + images from google of cohab injuries if you can. In the end though it's up to them to change.