Recent content by Trogdorpheus

Size. It's the digestive tract that's not fully unfolded when small.

5 years ish. I rescued her 4 years ago as a sub-adult.

If you have enough food and water, they won't eat each other. They're most likely doing what they're supposed to :)

My dragon is 18" and regularly eats 12-18 every few days. Never had a problem.

It might take a week or two for newly morphed beetles to begin mating, then normally another week or two you'll notice very small worms. Noticing them will also depend on how many beetles you have. Finding offspring of 8 beetle will be more difficult than offspring of 80. Just be patient :)...

You won't see them. They're very small.

Hey all. I know dragons can use superworms as a staple, but what else can? My dragon is brumating, and my super colony is growing quite rapidly... and I'm not going to pass up the excuse to add to my collection :)

You can use MDF if it is sealed. I made mine out of MDF (which is what melamine basically is without the plastic coating) and sealed with the miniwax polycrylic. Which btw is much cheaper than mod podge.

Depending on the size of your dragon... supers are easy to breed. In my experience, they're easier than roaches.

I get by with 4 of the plastic shoebox tubs. I have venting slits cut into the top, and I like to use all whole oats so then I know when to change substrate. If you have a bunch of ground oats too, its a little harder to distinguish between superworm waste and the ground oats. I typically only...

They're a basking/desert animal so more than likely no, they don't like swimming. Although there could be a rare dragon that enjoys it... who knows? I wouldn't force my dragon to swim though.

http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html I feed supers as a staple, but only after your dragon reaches 16" or larger. I've also fed Discoid roaches and Dubia roaches. I know plenty of people swear by reptiworms too. There's also silkworms, butterworms, goliath worms (appropriately sized)...

Actually the eggs and small worms are way to small to get them out of the bin at first, so what I do is move the beetles to an empty tub, wait 3-4 weeks for the eggs and smaller worms to hatch/gain a little bit of size then move them into my small worm bin. By then its time to move beetles...

I doubt you'll find any on this site, but I'll look around. Edit: Hm... they seem harder to find than I would have thought, but I'm not surprised. Seeing as their output is much more appropriate for a bearded dragons at close range, then the bulbs that did in fact have quality issues would...

Well, my main point is that I'm sure you could find bad reviews about the reptisun too if you looked in the right places. Its just with a lower output, you probably won't encounter over-exposure to UVB often unless the dragon was sitting with its head in the hood. With that, I'll finish with...