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Personally in my beardy enclosures I use a 10.0 reptile one tube bulb, and and a separate spotlight bulb (75w) for heat and basking. Tube bulbs are normally better due to being able to cover the whole of the enclosure as well as the UV gradient not being as harsh as most other bulbs you can purchase.

20gal longs are normally around 60cm long by 30cm wide floor size. Could probably get away with keeping a young leopard gecko in it, but I would still say it's too small for an adult. I had a single female in a 60cmX50cm and still felt this was too small. Leopard geckos are also an excellent starter reptile for those new to keeping.

My father used to tell me that when we were kids there were frillies living near the sheltered beach our family used to visit, and how they would get up on their back legs and run. I can't remember ever seeing them (would have been too young at the time) but believe that they probably were there at some point, dunno what other kind of large lizard in NZ would get up on their hind legs to run. Would love some to be in NZ their frills are awesome

I normally do weekly weigh ins until they're about 12-18months old to check they are growing properly. I wish more people posted their weigh ins too, to compare.

I have a girl that's around 24months old she weighs in at 440-450g She's a big healthy looking girl Her hanging off one of her branches.

Oh cool I hadn't seen them there. This one is local (Christchurch) so pretty handy Will have to wait till they open up again on Tuesday.

Cool thanks. I may have to just go and purchase her tomorrow less than $400 not bad for one

Am I right in saying this is a Emydura subglobosa? Was listed as "australian painted turtle". Haven't seen the specie enough to be sure, a second opinion would be awesome

I normally feed locusts that I breed myself, but have been feeding a lot more crickets from a breeder here as of recent (the reps were getting bored of their food), they're bloody noisy though lol.

Yea they still produce infertile eggs, haven't had any slugs from any of my adult females yet (beardies too). The only ones I've had are couple of infertile ones from a breeding pair of coastals I had. 30g is pretty small for one to start producing would be surprising, hope you fattened her back up with lots of wax worms .

Thanks . She's very friendly too. Nope haven't seen any eggs yet at all. She's between 45-50 grams so just really hit breeding weight now. Although I do not plan on breeding her myself.

Yea I think they use a non-toxic soy based ink in the news papers now days.

Here's a picture of my female high yellow I got from alan sometime ago. She would be around 19-20months now.

I do that also with my grass also, keep it in water just gotta watch your locusts can't fall in and drown.