Annaliselk
New Member
Hi everyone! Have read MANY threads on here, but this is my first post, so thanks in advance for any and all feedback you can provide.
We live in East Texas and have had Pasqual, a male Veiled who is approx. 10.5 inches long, for 2 months (any guesses on his age would be great because the pet store people were clueless when we got him). We (stupidly) started out with the tiny cage kit from Petco, along with the wrong food, the wrong gutload for the crickets, the wrong lights, the wrong everything.
We now have Repashy Calcium Plus LoD for him, Repashy Bug Burger for his crickets, and are in the process of building our own enclosure (5 ft. wide, 2 ft. deep, and 4 ft. tall with a solid back and mesh top/front/sides), with a Mistking 3-nozzle misting system. Lighting will be on a 12-hour on/off schedule with an Arcadia 48” T5HO quad fixture (1 @ 12%, 3 @ 6500 - 8-9” from nearest branch) and a dome basking lamp (100w - 12” from nearest branch). Lighting set up is per Todd Goode’s (Light Your Reptiles) recommendations.
We have 1 pothos and 5 dracaena (couldn’t find any ficus or umbrella, but read what we have is safe?). All are fairly young/short plants - currently, the tallest of any of them is 1 ft. high, but I think they’ll grow to approx. 3 ft. high? I’m not a plant person (2 very black thumbs!), so I’m not sure if I’m on the right track with the type/number of plants and/or if the lights we’ll have are sufficient for the plants...? We do know to cover the dirt in the pots with river rock, though. We will also have branches (real - birch and manzanita) and vines (fake) in there.
Having said all of that, we need help on determining the best frequency and duration of the mistings. And any other advice/thoughts y’all might have?
Last, but certainly not least, anything we are now getting right is due to all the wonderful, invaluable advice from all the veteran keepers on this site, so thank you all!
Lisa
We live in East Texas and have had Pasqual, a male Veiled who is approx. 10.5 inches long, for 2 months (any guesses on his age would be great because the pet store people were clueless when we got him). We (stupidly) started out with the tiny cage kit from Petco, along with the wrong food, the wrong gutload for the crickets, the wrong lights, the wrong everything.
We now have Repashy Calcium Plus LoD for him, Repashy Bug Burger for his crickets, and are in the process of building our own enclosure (5 ft. wide, 2 ft. deep, and 4 ft. tall with a solid back and mesh top/front/sides), with a Mistking 3-nozzle misting system. Lighting will be on a 12-hour on/off schedule with an Arcadia 48” T5HO quad fixture (1 @ 12%, 3 @ 6500 - 8-9” from nearest branch) and a dome basking lamp (100w - 12” from nearest branch). Lighting set up is per Todd Goode’s (Light Your Reptiles) recommendations.
We have 1 pothos and 5 dracaena (couldn’t find any ficus or umbrella, but read what we have is safe?). All are fairly young/short plants - currently, the tallest of any of them is 1 ft. high, but I think they’ll grow to approx. 3 ft. high? I’m not a plant person (2 very black thumbs!), so I’m not sure if I’m on the right track with the type/number of plants and/or if the lights we’ll have are sufficient for the plants...? We do know to cover the dirt in the pots with river rock, though. We will also have branches (real - birch and manzanita) and vines (fake) in there.
Having said all of that, we need help on determining the best frequency and duration of the mistings. And any other advice/thoughts y’all might have?
Last, but certainly not least, anything we are now getting right is due to all the wonderful, invaluable advice from all the veteran keepers on this site, so thank you all!
Lisa
