Recent content by DeltaElite121

Unfortunately it's both. There's a great Petsmart over by me and they do the absolute best job I've seen in a commercial pet store. The problem is, corporate tells them a certain daily routine for said animals, and they're expected to follow policy. Yes, that means that unfortunately the baby...

108 degrees basking. He's in a 40 gallon breeder tank. I also use several thermometers to reference from and they are all within .5 of eachother respectively. My main one is IR, and my secondary uses a probe. The others are standard. I haven't seen any pronounced stress marks from him unless...

Alright, so it's been awhile since I've posted... but my little ones have both grown up (they're two years old now and doing awesome). I had my first clutch about 6 months ago and had 27 little dragons make it on my first clutch. My girlfriend wanted to keep one, and I let her pick the one she...

I have found out my female is carefree. However - my male absolutely HATES ceiling fans. Scares the bejesus out of him and he gets pissed off and finds a corner to hide in (understandable since he thinks it's a flying predator I'm sure). He also doesn't care for the dog, but doesn't hate her...

I had seen the horror stories about how the animals are treated and such, so I decided to investigate one of the local stores to see what they had (I'm looking for some White's tree frogs, and they are the only ones that had them out of several in my area)... Yeah, my heart sunk a little when I...

It's realistically crawling space, not the space itself. They like to get into things, and if you just throw them into a cage they'll all huddle into the corners. That's why you see egg cartons and the like used because there's tons of stuff for them to crawl on.

I ordered a batch of 1000 and I've had about 50 die total at the very most. This was my first batch of 1,000. Here's what I find works for me (because my first small batch of 200 I lost HALF of them): - Tank size is critical I noticed the first time around. For 1000 crickets, I have them split...

I knew a person that ate 19 tennis balls in a row once... one night they literally exploded nothing left except guts and slime everywhere. Happens all the time, apparently.

I usually let mine sit under the lamp for an hour before I feed them. They're usually ready to eat by then.

Wow, I'm really sorry to hear that. Try to think of all the good times and realize that eventually - every living thing dies.. including us. Your time wasn't wasted with the animal, and those memories haven't been lost. Those are things you'll hold on to forever.

to be fair, BOTH of mine also react a lot better to crickets that are dusted. They're much easier to see. I seriously doubt the dragon has eye problems, moreso just being easier to see movement from a bright white cricket.

I just moved up to medium sized crickets today and they aren't having any issues with them. My beardies are both just a hair smaller than yours. Just make sure you don't go too big, heh.

LLLReptile, I think you're right on the calm handling. Animals can sense nervousness. I've been very, very slow and calm so far. They've responded really well to it. I also do have a backup bulb ;) When do baby beardies start displaying interest in greens? Mine aren't so.. thrilled about them...

I chose bearded dragons to keep away from my car, actually. I have a Camaro I've sunk a lot of money into, heh. Was time to get into another hobby before I start building another motor.

and what uh.. addicting hobby... is this. Hahah