New Addition! Beardie!

[TeaNinja]

many adoptions or rescues are like that. neither of my dumerils (both free from cl with setup) were kept in SUPER bad conditions, but they definetly weren't right. when i got my 5 1/2 foot male dum, the guy had him in a 40 gallon glass tank with 1 hide, a UTH with no rheostat, and a bulb with no thermostat. the guy wondered why he didn't go on the hot side lol.... pretty much the same with my female dumerils. the guy gave me the glass tank that had a CHE on it with no rheostat. when i got everything home and plugged in the CHE, i checked the temps with a digital thermometer like 15 minutes after and it was already skyrocketing to shockingly high temps. i pulled that bulb, put in a lower wattage red bulb and covered 2/3 of the screen with tape on both sides.

it's shocking to me that people would get these animals as pets and not bother to learn what conditions they actually thrive in.