DO NOT BUY THE ZILLA KITS FOR REPTILES THEY SALE, THEY WILL HARM YOUR PET!
I am giving petco a one star mainly for their lack of knowledge about reptiles. So I made the mistake of falling in love with a bearded dragon they had. I knew absolutely nothing about them so I asked the staff how they were as pets and what equipment I needed. He then said they were fairly easy and that they sold a kit that had everything I needed and was cheaper than if I had bought the stuff separate. This kit was a 20 gallon zilla deluxe. So I took my dragon home and set up the kit. It came with a dial stick on thermometer, colored heat bulb, coiled uvb bulb, a red night time bulb, some pellet substrate, and a food and water dish. Long story short 3 days later my little guy passed. I blamed my self over and over until I did tons of research and spoke with reputable reptile breeders who had years of experience with bearded dragons. Turns out my first mistake was not knowing the warning signs of illness before purchasing a dragon. The signs are mouth breathing, lack of apetite, and jerky movement. My petco dragon had all these and he most likely had a respiratory infection and metabolic bone disease when I got him which he probably developed from lack of proper equipment at Petco. My second mistake was taking the Petco rep advice and buying the zilla kit. The only thing worthy of this kit is probably the tank. The rest of is just down right dangerous for a bearded dragon, specially one that came sick from the pet store. The dial thermometer has been proven to be off by as much as 40 degrees! Plus it's a stick on type. This will give you the temp on the glass as oposed to the basking spot. The other thing is the bulbs, coil uvb bulbs have been linked to causing eye damage to dragons and provide very little uvb which they need for bone development. The basking bulbs is also a colored bulb which is bad for them. Any nighttime bulb is bad for bearded dragons as even the small amount of light interrupts their sleep. Then there's the substrate which can cause impactions. Most bearded dragons that are unfortunate to end up in these kits either are cooked alive due to the nad thermometer or develop illnesses due to poor equipment. So you spend 170 dollars for a kit that you have to end up throwing away most of its contents except a 20 dollar tank which you'll end up having to toss anyway when he out grows it.
After learning my lesson and doing all my research I put together a kit of my own with the proper equipment. $40 gallon tank which is twice the size and he can grow into. Reptisun uvb florescent tube and a basking lamp for around $60. Repti carpet for about $10 and the most important part, the thermometers. Two zoomed digital thermometers with probe, echo was $10. So when all was said and done I had spent significantly less for superior equipment that will not hurt my pet. Sadly these Zilla kits are a money maker for Petco because they are enticing to impulse buyers who had not done their research. So I ask that you not only not buy it but tell Petco to stop selling them and safe a bearded dragon from ending up in one. read more