Introducing myself

Hi everyone! I've owned my two beardies for about 2 years. I bought 1 from petco and one from petsmart when they were babies. Back then I didn't know much about them just the basics food, heating, lighting, enclosures etc. Well not knowing any better I was housing them together. In August of 2016 I realized that one was female and the other a male as my female layed 18 fertile eggs :shock: In October of 2016 all 18 eggs hatched so I went from 2 beardies to 20 beardies in the blink of an eye :lol:.Thankfully I was able to rehome 16 and of course I had to keep 2. So now I am the proud mommy of 4 bearded dragons. My males name is Fiji he's 21 inches long, my females name is Loki she's 18 inches long and my babies are both around 14 inches at only 3 months old :shock: There names are Draco and Elliot.

That's quite the dragon family! I'm glad you were able to hatch the babies and give them good homes as well =)

Wow, that is awesome!! I wish I could have 4.... :lol:

Woah!!! That's awesome! Congratulations on all the eggs hatching and finding homes for all of them! Sounds like they're definitely in great care with all that you've learned now!

Thanks. I just had another 26 babies hatch on February 12th. I went into our local pet store today to buy crickets and the owner wants to buy 10 of my baby's as soon as they are ready.

Debsdragons123":2g3ni59e said:

Thanks. I just had another 26 babies hatch on February 12th. I went into our local pet store today to buy crickets and the owner wants to buy 10 of my baby's as soon as they are ready.

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Just make sure they know the proper care of the babies- all too often pet stores unwittingly abuse or neglect them.

Yes. Now I'm having second thoughts about the pet store. I went in last week for more crickets and none of their reptiles had heat or u.v.b. lighting. I will check again before selling to them. They said they were cleaning out the cages so the lights were off temporarily. I definitely will not sell to them unless I'm sure they will care for the babies.

Debsdragons123":1c47torz said:

Yes. Now I'm having second thoughts about the pet store. I went in last week for more crickets and none of their reptiles had heat or u.v.b. lighting. I will check again before selling to them. They said they were cleaning out the cages so the lights were off temporarily. I definitely will not sell to them unless I'm sure they will care for the babies.

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That's a good idea. Are there any local reptile stores? They usually take better care of their reptiles (although some can be as bad as PetSmart or PetCo. )

Lots of mouths to feed
I am going through that now also. In January eleven mexican beaded lizards hatched out at my house. My rat & mouse bill got expensive quick!!
But congrats on hatching them out!
Lots of people fail at it...so you did your homework and did a good job!!

Thanks for all the responses. When my bearded dragon layed eggs for the first time I had to learn really quickly how to hatch them as I knew very little. Lucky for me I had an incubator for chicken eggs. I bet I checked the temps on my incubator 10 times a day. I added water a few times to up the humidity. I never had any issues with mold. But I'm done hatching them out. My female and male are now separated. :lol: