MangosMom1
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So I got my beardie a couple weeks ago, and this is all the stuff about him, I know I may not be doing very good, and I would do anything I possibly can to make him happy, which he seems like he is most the time. Here's about him.
My baby Beardie, Mango, is always shutting one of his eyes. He will open it sometimes, it looks okay when he opens it, it may be a little watery but he doesnt open it up long enough for me to see. He is 3 or 4 months old, and I got him from petsmart, because he looked like the healthiest one, and a fell in love with him. Not quite sure of the gender, but I say he. Maybe I'm being paranoid beause I took him out to look at him and after a couple minutes he is sitting on me with both his eyes open and it looks fine!
I took Mango out to play, and after he ran around for a while, he did this weird wiggle thing, while laying down, now is just laying on me, eyes open, breathing, head down, is he okay? This is the first time I saw this.
Sometimes a reach into his cage too fast and he opens his mouth I think he is hissing, then he is fine.
He was trying to eat the hair on the back of my neck the other day ( I have short hair )
Mango is living in a 10 gallon tank, and when he gets bigger he will get a 40 gallon or more tank, maybe even his own room/closet. I made him his own blankets and pillows I put in his cage at night and he sleeps on it.
He basks on a bunch of sticks I sterilized and hot glued together, and it's worth mentioning when he is basking he gets stress marks, and turns a darker color, but he turns bright and colorful when he eats, is getting a bath, or running around.
He has a 5.0 UVB Reptisun bulb, when I got the bulb I thought I was getting it for an anole I caught, but he sadly died, so I got a beardie instead. I will replace it in 3 months when I have the money, with a 10.0 bulb. And his 75 watt red heat bulb broke, his lamp fell, so now he is using one of those old 100 watt house bulbs that was banned because they were too hot, my grandma had a bunch, so it seemed convenient. I'm not quite sure of the heat in his tank, but I am getting a thermometer soon. If he seems too cold I turnup the heat in the house, too hot, I turn down the heat, I watch him 24'7. His basking spot is 2-4 inches away from the lights. I turn off the lights at night, and he sleeps peacefully.
For substrate he has tolit paper, and not sand.
He eats dried mealworms and fluckers gourmet mealworms, along with radish greens, the nearest petstore is an hour or more away, so having live food isn't really an option, I didn't realize they ate so much, plush my grandma doesnt want live bugs in her house. Another problem, I don't think he is eating enough, but he'll eat if I put him near his dish, or when he just gets hungry and stops basking for some food. I pile food in his dish, and let him eat as much as he wants. But the pile is never gone before bed so I dont know if he eats enough. he also prefers his food without calcium powder, so every day with ever single piece of food I put calcium powder just on the bottom so he cant see it. Whenever his food gets low I refill it, I don't want him to starve.
He gets one to two baths a day so he can stay hydrated after I took the water dish out because the humidity was getting too high, I dry him off well after every bath. He has little wrinkles when he turns his body, but when I "pinch them" they go back down right away, so not dehydrated I don't think.
He poops normally two to three poops a day, everything seems normal there.
He is full of energy and gets let out to run around in a beardie proof room.
It is worth mentioning I just moved from Alaska to Florida, and we don't have our own house yet, so I keep moving between my granparents house and my great grandmas house every couple weeks, but Mango seems to like car rides, and ajusts well after I put him back in his tank. But I really wanted this dragon to help with my depression, and it is working, I love him so much.
As I already stated when my mom and dad get our own house soon, he will be very spoiled with his own big tank, or room. Plus a lot of other things, like his own matress with a quilt I am working on right now, and some soft fluffy pillows, and tons of every food a beardie could want. I love him so much.
As I finish this post, Mango is sleeping on me, being the sweetest baby ever, I love him.
I will post pictures when I can.
My baby Beardie, Mango, is always shutting one of his eyes. He will open it sometimes, it looks okay when he opens it, it may be a little watery but he doesnt open it up long enough for me to see. He is 3 or 4 months old, and I got him from petsmart, because he looked like the healthiest one, and a fell in love with him. Not quite sure of the gender, but I say he. Maybe I'm being paranoid beause I took him out to look at him and after a couple minutes he is sitting on me with both his eyes open and it looks fine!
I took Mango out to play, and after he ran around for a while, he did this weird wiggle thing, while laying down, now is just laying on me, eyes open, breathing, head down, is he okay? This is the first time I saw this.
Sometimes a reach into his cage too fast and he opens his mouth I think he is hissing, then he is fine.
He was trying to eat the hair on the back of my neck the other day ( I have short hair )
Mango is living in a 10 gallon tank, and when he gets bigger he will get a 40 gallon or more tank, maybe even his own room/closet. I made him his own blankets and pillows I put in his cage at night and he sleeps on it.
He basks on a bunch of sticks I sterilized and hot glued together, and it's worth mentioning when he is basking he gets stress marks, and turns a darker color, but he turns bright and colorful when he eats, is getting a bath, or running around.
He has a 5.0 UVB Reptisun bulb, when I got the bulb I thought I was getting it for an anole I caught, but he sadly died, so I got a beardie instead. I will replace it in 3 months when I have the money, with a 10.0 bulb. And his 75 watt red heat bulb broke, his lamp fell, so now he is using one of those old 100 watt house bulbs that was banned because they were too hot, my grandma had a bunch, so it seemed convenient. I'm not quite sure of the heat in his tank, but I am getting a thermometer soon. If he seems too cold I turnup the heat in the house, too hot, I turn down the heat, I watch him 24'7. His basking spot is 2-4 inches away from the lights. I turn off the lights at night, and he sleeps peacefully.
For substrate he has tolit paper, and not sand.
He eats dried mealworms and fluckers gourmet mealworms, along with radish greens, the nearest petstore is an hour or more away, so having live food isn't really an option, I didn't realize they ate so much, plush my grandma doesnt want live bugs in her house. Another problem, I don't think he is eating enough, but he'll eat if I put him near his dish, or when he just gets hungry and stops basking for some food. I pile food in his dish, and let him eat as much as he wants. But the pile is never gone before bed so I dont know if he eats enough. he also prefers his food without calcium powder, so every day with ever single piece of food I put calcium powder just on the bottom so he cant see it. Whenever his food gets low I refill it, I don't want him to starve.
He gets one to two baths a day so he can stay hydrated after I took the water dish out because the humidity was getting too high, I dry him off well after every bath. He has little wrinkles when he turns his body, but when I "pinch them" they go back down right away, so not dehydrated I don't think.
He poops normally two to three poops a day, everything seems normal there.
He is full of energy and gets let out to run around in a beardie proof room.
It is worth mentioning I just moved from Alaska to Florida, and we don't have our own house yet, so I keep moving between my granparents house and my great grandmas house every couple weeks, but Mango seems to like car rides, and ajusts well after I put him back in his tank. But I really wanted this dragon to help with my depression, and it is working, I love him so much.
As I already stated when my mom and dad get our own house soon, he will be very spoiled with his own big tank, or room. Plus a lot of other things, like his own matress with a quilt I am working on right now, and some soft fluffy pillows, and tons of every food a beardie could want. I love him so much.
As I finish this post, Mango is sleeping on me, being the sweetest baby ever, I love him.
I will post pictures when I can.