Recent content by slove829

Agreed. And I seemed to have upset you by my wording. Apologies, I meant nothing by saying random people online. All that was meant is RL people, I have knowledge of who they are, what they do, their age, profession, credibility... Etc, while online I have no idea who is saying what. I find a...

I'm in what would probably be seen as a herp nerd group in my area, and a few of them are into Beardies, and no the breeder I got these from is not one who has told me that. There are 2 soon to be rep vets in the group, and a herpetologist who's been working with many species for 40 years...

I'm not sure ill be breeding, but since they will be pets and possible breeders, I wanted to get the sexes right from the beginning (don't want kids too attached yet if they're not 100% keepers) I used to breed Leos for almost 10 years and have always found first generation inbreeding doesn't do...

Thanks guys. I was pretty sure too. I just thought I'd have one inkling of hope #3 might be a female. Lol. What are the odds I buy 3 from a clutch of 15ish hoping for one female and all turn out males. Ahhhh. :/ lol. I have a 4th from the next clutch, crossing fingers that ones female. If it's a...

I'm pretty positive #1 is a male, almost positive #2 is a male, and I'm unsure about #3, but think it may be a male also. #1 - 7 weeks 6.5" #2 - 7 weeks 8.5" #3 - 7 weeks 8.5" I'm pretty positive they're all males. My luck I bought 3 from the same clutch and all turn out to be males...

I'm going camping this weekend for 3 nights and do not have friends I trust to come take care of them... so I will most likely be taking our Beardies with us in a small tank. Problem is we will have no electricity so will have no way to heat the Beardies at night... Will this hurt them to go...

Thanks for the reply. That helps a lot! I made a couple changes and the dying seems to have slowed but not completely stopped, but I think it should be soon. Taking the breeders advice i allowed taller cardboard to allow a temp gradient but theyre still staying down low so it probably wasnt...

I just talked to the guy who I got that first colony from and sent him pics and he thinks it might be my lack of large egg crates. I was planning to go this weekend and hit up grocery stores and restaurants to find places to get free crates... So for the time being, I was using the small ones...

I'm not at home to take pics, so those will follow later... OK, so on Monday, I got a mixed colony of 25 females, 10 males and about 130 mixed. They came to me in separate containers, and the guy lives in my city (craigslist) and delivered to me. I don't know if this has much to do with it...

Hey there, Orange County mom here. :) I too am the herp lover of the family. lol. The kids do love animals as well but they're just not as obsessed (yet). The boyfriend... well let's just say he has a ton more fun with the dubias lol... but I swear I can feel him staring at the tank when...

I went ahead and put them in their permanent home, a large Rubbermaid... I'm hoping this will solve the die off issue. I'm figuring with them being in the smaller bin the temp and/or humidity was less consistent. It's now been consistently @ 88.7F for the last half hour and haven't checked...

I was adding some food to a newly acquired colony and as I was doing this, a female jumped onto a carrot and dropped into her back and started doing this... http://youtu.be/VW4_per016k Did she just drop her sack? If you watch the first few seconds of the video, she obviously dropped her sack...

Thanks guys. :) And yes they will be separated. I have tons of tanks in storage as I used to breed Leopard Geckos. They just need to be setup for Beardies. :)

Of course, no offense taken. :) To make it easier, here's a pic. The UVB is temporarily too high ATM. Saturday I'll be going to buy a few supplies at Home Depot. I hadn't realized this tank was fairly tall for a beardie when I set it up, and on top of that, I thought I had 1 more 18" light...

Took a few pics last night. :) The beardie's color in question is probably obvious :lol: It's the one not in shed. When I got him he was so orange and this is what's he's been looking like since then and orange diminished. :( Anyway, that ones Crush and we still haven't gotten to naming the HT...