Hi guys...
OK so I was given a vivarium for Christmas and was in the process of setting it up and getting a reptile license. I planned to get a Western bearded dragon and had started calling breeders ( could only find a few pet shops in Perth that had any ).
Last week my friend found me a beautiful female beardie. Her natural habitat is like 2km from our house so i've tried to simulate that environment, ie. same sand and rocks that she would be used to. And we have an abundance of crickets which she has been eating.
So she's eating and pooping OK, I didn't expect her to be so tame but she allows me to handle her. Oh she's eaten some Rep-Cal pellets too.
I have ordered UVB lights and heating which probably wont arrive until next week.So for the time being she has been basking outside in a smaller tank and we have put a desk lamp over her house. Do you think this will suffice for now? I live in the north west so average temp. for us is 38-45 degrees, the temperature of the room my dragon is in is 24 degrees. Does anyone have any pointers, I sort of feel I should take her back to the wild. If anyone can give some advice on wild beardies would be much appreciated! And if anyone knows a good place to buy crickets in WA, they need to be transported to me aswell. I live in a remote part of Oz and there is nowhere to buy reptile stuff here so if there's any good websites I should know about?
Thanks in advance!
Oh and she's very much an Aussie girl she was licking Vegemite off my fingers yesterday. Hope that's not bad for her?
OK so I was given a vivarium for Christmas and was in the process of setting it up and getting a reptile license. I planned to get a Western bearded dragon and had started calling breeders ( could only find a few pet shops in Perth that had any ).
Last week my friend found me a beautiful female beardie. Her natural habitat is like 2km from our house so i've tried to simulate that environment, ie. same sand and rocks that she would be used to. And we have an abundance of crickets which she has been eating.
So she's eating and pooping OK, I didn't expect her to be so tame but she allows me to handle her. Oh she's eaten some Rep-Cal pellets too.
I have ordered UVB lights and heating which probably wont arrive until next week.So for the time being she has been basking outside in a smaller tank and we have put a desk lamp over her house. Do you think this will suffice for now? I live in the north west so average temp. for us is 38-45 degrees, the temperature of the room my dragon is in is 24 degrees. Does anyone have any pointers, I sort of feel I should take her back to the wild. If anyone can give some advice on wild beardies would be much appreciated! And if anyone knows a good place to buy crickets in WA, they need to be transported to me aswell. I live in a remote part of Oz and there is nowhere to buy reptile stuff here so if there's any good websites I should know about?
Thanks in advance!
Oh and she's very much an Aussie girl she was licking Vegemite off my fingers yesterday. Hope that's not bad for her?