Recent content by saintgeorge

You are so lucky your little guy actually eats the pellets! I'd try doing half and half...

maybe tinned cat food would work?

My beardie's gone on four all-day car trips, both when he was a couple months old. He was fine - just conked out back in his travel tank, which was a 7 gal for a 6.5 in beardie.

I feel compelled to put my vote in for the east... especially the northeast. And it should be on the weekend. Perhaps we could just have a "Beardie Day" and have different regions do their own thing, whether it be little parties or big conventions.

No idea where to get them, though.

Check out this site for any questions about feeding. Cactus pads are great! You can use them as a staple. http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/Nutrition.html

Beardies are great, and like to be handled. I'd go with one of them. Try to get one that's at least eight or nine inches, as they can be hard to take care of as babies. Just make sure you aren't just going for the "cute" factor, as they look slightly less cuddly as adults. Reptiles are harder...

Generally it's a good idea to separate beardies, even babies, since they will give each other bad bites, etc. Beautiful viv, though! What's wrong with the one with the bad back? MBD?

bump sorry, I have very little experience...

The website http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/MBD.html has info about MBD of that's what this is. I don't know much about stuff like this, so I'm bumping this topic in the hopes that a more experienced person will see it.

Wow. It's been nearly three weeks. This means that either beardies only rarely/never get impacted from this stuff, or people haven't been noticing this discussion. So... **bump**

I've been looking around this site. Everyone is always telling newbies that sand, even Calci-sand is bad, bad, bad! And yet I've got a bearded dragon manual by Philip Purser that says he's been keeping beardies on fine sand (not calcium carbonate) for 20 years and never once has one of them had...

Your beardie definitely sounds like it has MBD. Go to this website to learn about it. Then answer the questions at the bottom of this post. http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/MBD.html Here's an excerpt: "Signs of metabolic bone disease include hard knobs in the long bones of the legs...

Fair nuff.

I know you may think I'm mutant or Martian - or both - but I actually like brussels sprouts... But if he decides he likes those my sister will be the one throwing him out the window. By the way, I'm actually from Neptune. Just in case you were wondering. And the only proof of my mutant-ness...