why did i choose a beardie

[cornmad]

i do have a uvb a extra terra 10.0

 

[Tula_Montage]

How do you heat the viv?

 

[Nanci]

Nanci, you can let Isabel sleep for as long as she wants. I know its hard seeing your dragon laying around cold but she will be ok. Daily soaks really aren't necessary either and it distrups her sleeping cycle.

Well, she hasn't gone into her hide. She moves once or twice a day. She was in her hide for a week in January, and then I needed a fecal from her, so I soaked her, and then she had these weird orange spots on the urates portion, which you may have seen on BD.org, so after that I resumed daily soaking and now when she poops every couple weeks, the urates are back to normal. So...

 

[Snake Dave]

No offence mate, but a conservatory is a really stupid place to put animals, of any kind. During the day, especially the summer months they get boiling hot, and at night the temperatures plummet. Considering the whole thing is made of glass, all of that direct sunlight on the viv is literally going to cook him. I'd recommend moving him, and any other animals you may have in there, straight out.

85F is fine for a cool side/ambient temp, but he needs a basking spot of 105F. Trust me, if his viv is in a conservatory in London in February, you can bet that his viv will not be 85F, not with a conventional heating bulb/ceramic heater.

 

[strawberry_bunny]

My adult male does practically nothing, when he was younger he used to run about and dance at the glass for wax worms now he does nothing some times he'll move to sit in front of his heater but most of the time he sits well lounges on his log

 

[strawberry_bunny]

sorry I'm so dim, if the temps are low then we will be "lazy" as he has no energy, my boy friends beardies are a bit crazy I found that his and my females are far more active than our males, and the breeders male was the same. My female takes a little while to get going but once shes warmed up shes off running round eating, shes a bit of a pig she was sooooooooooo skinny when I got her. What are you feeding him/her?

 

[cornmad]

locusts and crickets

 

[strawberry_bunny]

any veg? I know some beardies can suffer from a lack of vitamins, and such do you supliment his diet? Just trying to think of everything to try and get her up and going.

 

[Snake Dave]

locusts and crickets

Please tell me you feed vegetables and fruit too... If not, this is elementary stuff, and is vital for your dragon's health, if not, he could end up with gout and/or metabolic bone disease especially if he's still growing.

As adults/sub-adults, vegetables and fruit should make up around 60% of their total intake. Greens such as mustard and collard greens, dandelion greens and other vegetables such as finely chopped or shredded carrot, kale, parsley, squash, corn, sweet potato, zuchini and peas (there are loads of other vegetables you can use too). Chopped fruit like apples, raspberries, pears, grapes, plums and peaches are also good, but make sure that there are more vegetables than fruit. DO NOT feed iceberd lettuce, it has little nutritional value and can give bearded dragons the 'runs', prompting dehydration.

Make sure you gut-load and dust the crickets and locusts at every other feeding with a calcium supplement, and occasionally a multi-vitamin supplement (if fed the proper greens and fruit this will be required less often)

Hope that helps

David