so i went to my moms apt to update her bearded dragon tiamat’s tank for christmas. a pic of her old tank set up thats rly leftover from when she was still tiny, then the new tnak w ceramic tiles fr the habitat for humanity restore (thoroughly cleaned and dried before using!). i need to get 3 more rectangles to finish it off, plus now i’m gonna make plans to get a dig box set up as a mother’s day present for her. i realize now i didn’t really give her a good hide on the cool side of the tank so i might pick up some silk plants from walmart or the dollar store and work something out with clay. but at least she no longer has the ceramic hot rock in there to burn herself on (ive been talking abt it since the day they got it but her apt gets so cold during the day the cool side gets too low) and the Space Heater is currently above the tank as an additional heat source. i’m trying to help my mom set up a 24-hr night heat bulb so she’s got a heat source in the dark too and doesnt freeze at night. w/ any luck, the tile will absorb enough heat to help too. she’s already really happy with it.
descriptions for the pictures under the cut, in order:
PICTURE 1: Uncleaned tank with papertowel bedding. The floor is cluttered with furniture, with a large aquarium tree in the upper left corner, a very large and shallow water bowl in the lower left corner, two separate food dishes for bugs and vegetables, a ceramic heated rock with the cable masked by plastic leaves in the center, an aquarium crocodile skull, a chunk of wood, and a half log in the bottom right corner, a silk fern inthe upper right corner, a sandblasted y-shaped grape vine overtop of everything on the right side, and a 6 inch space heater on top of the log.
PICTURE 2: Cleaned tank, with ceramic tiles laid overtop of papertowel (three 12x12 inch squares along the top, and three 2x12 inch rectangles below, with space for three more). On the lefthand side, a new corner-fitting water bowl that is more deep than it is wide to save floor space and keep her water from getting as dirty, a ceramic angled log hide with the fabric fern behind it, her vegetable food dish tucked beside it, and the y-shaped sandblasted grapevine overhanging as a basking spot. Her bug-bowl rests beneath it. And on the right, the aquarium crocodile skull basking spot, the natural half-log, extra tiles for more depth of the landscape, and a wooden vine-covered ladder (part of a set up that should allow her to reenter the cage whenever shes done roaming the apartment).
PICTURE 3: A close up of the new hide on the left hot side, with the bearded dragon Tiamat curled up inside to go to sleep.
PICTURE 4: Bonus pic of Tiamat wearing a leash with bat wings. She is very grumpy.
