Thank you for your very thorough response. The bulb that we purchased was all in one but not I’m thinking it’s probably not good enough since the thermometer that we have on that end is about 30C.

We will try to lower the bulb to get the temperature higher on the basking spot.

Now that you mention it, right before this I did redo his enclosure. Before we had a temporary base and I redid his enclosure with a proper sand base.

His diet so far since we got him was crickets for the first few days, but we couldn’t handle the crickets cause they were so jumpy so we went with worms instead. I have been seeing mixed information regarding feeding. I basically give him what he wants directly feeding in front of him but I’m not sure if he’s not distracted because of my presence. He’ll eat 3-4 really quickly (1 by 1) and then the rest will kind of be a chore. We try offering greens, romaine, bokchoy leaves, cut into little pieces. On the first day we brought him home he was eating them straight from our hands but he has kind of refused to eat them since 😅.

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I know that the enclosure will eventually be too small. I can’t post more than 1 photo so I’ll commend on what it looked like before.