WeirdoWithABeardo
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Hi! My name is Katey and I have a sweetheart of a beardie named Amber. I got Amber back in April at approximately a couple months old. Recently, my family and friends have been calling her fat and I've been doing research on fat beardies and I've come up inconclusive. The videos and articles I've dug up say that the signs of an overweight dragon are a huge belly, big jowls, big fat pads, and a thick and squishy tail. When I look over Amber, I've noticed she's kinda in the middle. She has a roundish belly, but it doesn't drag on the ground when she walks, her jowls hang down when she's relaxed but look relatively normal. Her fat pads look normal and her tail as a slight squish underneath but besides that is pretty solid. I'm thinking that the main reason to why she's got some squish is to the fact that she's outgrown her tank. She's currently in a 40 gallon breeder that I can't really fit too much decor in. I want to upgrade her to a 48Lx18Dx24H terrarium so she has more room to run around in and I can put more climbing stuff in. Unfortunately, I don't have an exact weight and length on her due to the fact that I lost my tape measure and I don't have a scale. On the plus side, I do have a photo of her next to a Nintendo Switch so hopefully that will give some perspective.
Sorry some of the photos are a little blurry. I didn't realize it until I was looking at the preview of this post.
Sorry some of the photos are a little blurry. I didn't realize it until I was looking at the preview of this post.