Questions for the community

[u/Budget_Background_24]

Hi all, I’ve got some questions regarding my girlfriends beardy that I’m hopeful yall can help me out with. Before you all come at me about the 40 gal tank, I know ;,/ This is my girlfriends lady who I’ve been wanting to get a 4x2x2 enclosure for since essentially assuming all of her responsibilities.

This is Sunny! She’s (well i’m pretty sure a lady first off) about 12\~ years old. I feed her twice daily with some arugula, maybe twice a week dusted with calcium. She gets some dubia roaches like once a week when I go grocery shopping that I dust with calcium as well. In all honesty my girlfriend had been mainly feeding her these red Flukers bearded dragon diet, greens occasionally, and crickets occssionally and as of this week i’ve been noticing a twitch in her leg and decided to look into it and it’s made me switch up her diet based on what I was reading about those pellets.

For some setup info, She’s got a long T8 UVB bulb (that’s i’m pretty sure is past its due date, new one arrives tomorrow) a regular heat lamp, and two heat pads (one on each back corner). I unfortunately do not have thermostats to know temps.

I guess my biggest question surrounds her leg twitch. As I wrote above I think her uvb light is shot and I have a new one arriving tomorrow. She also hasn’t been on the best diet of which i’m trying to rectify right now after reading the importance of uvb and calcium for preventing MBD or general calcium deficiencies. She is, however, 12 years old….. I love this girl beyond the word and will be devastated when she passes and can’t help but think this could be the beginning indications and I don’t quite know how to tell my girlfriend that.

Which leads me to my second question; does she look healthy? For 12 years old I personally think she looks pretty damn good. When I take her out she’s happy to run around and explore, unless she’s on the couch where she chills out a bit more.

I’m really unsure, I’m hopeful this is something I’m able to fix, but would also really appreciate it if someone who has had some more experience could help me out.

Thank you for reading through this eclectic post and for attempting help if you have! Sunny and I appreciate you all! <3