I am new here and have been a beardie owner for the last 3 1/2 years- I have learned a lot from the internet on beardies since then. We acquired our beardie from the high school where my daughter went to school - she was a 10th grader at the time-- at first Trogdor (Troggy) was a babysitting job for the summer -- Khloe volunteered to bring her home - we didn't have a clue as to what we were doing -- in fact I had never seen a bearded dragon before- so the first week the tank she came home in was only a 20 gal tank which was too small for her -- she would claw at the glass and I picked up on it right away she was wanting out-- so I told Khloe to get a hold of her Science teacher and see if he wanted to get rid of her- I told Khloe if he did we would then go and invest in a larger tank- it took a week for him to get back w/ us since he was camping in the boundry waters in Northern MN-- he said yes so we officially adopted Troggy-- you could tell she was so unhappy in that tank- so we went to PetSmart and bought a 50 gal aquarium for her and new logs for her to sit on etc................. she seemed so much happier in that tank plus we started getting her out and bringing her in the LR w/ us and letting her sit on the back of the chair or couch in the sun and looking out the window---------- at times she would get on the LR floor and run around often crawling uder a corner shelf her favorite spot to sleep- we learned to give her baths --changed her diet as she was eating mealworms only when she came here which in turned ended up plugging her up- at that point I was on the internet learning to feed her greens fruit and little dragon bites and sweet potato- she ate crickets too but eventually quit eating them the last year and a half or so -- don't know why-- so her diet went to the fresh mustard greens gr beans honey crisp apple and sweet potato w/ meal worms only as a treat-- she seemed to be a happy little beardie and she grew another 6 inches from when we first got her--- I spent way more time w/ her than Khloe did -- and became quite attached to her--------- it is w/ heavy heart that I write this today as Troggy died almost a week ago and it really took the winds out of my sails as she was my little companion as I worked in my office during the day here at home and we would watch the soaps on the days I was not working---------- we have not figured out why she died -- she quit eating and I thought she was going into brumation but after consulting w/ a reptile vet on line she seems to think she died of cardiac arrest-- I really don't know I got her to eat 2 meal worms the day before as she was up moving around her tank etc and then on Sun she went into one of the corners in her tank and passed. She showed no signs of resp infection or anything so I am stumped and that we didn't know exactly how old she was -- we figured possibly 10 -- she lived at the high school for 2 years possibly more and then before at a college w/ the kid that originally had gotten her ----- so we aren't exactly sure how old she was ----------- I know she had a hard life before coming to live here w/ us as the kids would poke and prod at her etc......... we have been trying to figure out what kind of beardie she was -- we are thinking a white beardie -- I loved her dinosaur eyes -- they were light brown or dark orange not really sure w/ the shape of the dinosaur eye that was what caught my attention to her --------- we only saw sign of aggression once w/ her and that was w/ my son don't know what the deal was w/ that but like it said it was only one time--- we have her in a box now waiting for the ground to thaw out so we can bury her in our back yard along the fence of a field -- I miss her and would like to get another one --- I just now cleaned out the tank today - it has been hard looking at that dark tank when walking into my office the last week--------- that's my story of my little dragon ---