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I hope you can figure out the mystery with Broly's beard -- must be frustrating. "Grumpy" is as good an explanation as any, I guess. I hope it's not causing him pain, at least. Sounds like he's still perky though. That's a lot of crickets for one meal! (unless they were little ones) I don't...

Glad to hear that Broly seems to be getting along ok. Puff was "army crawling" at the last -- pulling himself around with his hands. I don't think he had enough strength left in his legs to stand up and walk anymore. Hopefully it's temporary in Broly's case from missing the serrapeptase for...

Hi... That's weird about Broly's beard. I hope you can figure it out and that it doesn't turn out to be anything serious. Puff's beard was dark near the end of his life so I hope he wasn't in too much pain, but I'm afraid that's probably what it meant. In Broly's case, if he's running around...

Hi... Glad to hear that Broly is still plugging along with no major problems. We had to surround Puff with soft stuff too -- pretty early on in his life because he was a klutz from the get-go. We used wads of towels. We kept him in the large tank though (125 gal) but he probably could have...

Yep. We've kept this thread going for a looooong time.

We had a 125 gallon tank for Puff -- wanted him to have as much space as we could get away with. No room for anything larger, but it seemed adequate. He didn't really use all of his space for the last few years. But he was used to it when he was young. When we visited his "Grandfather" we...

I guess some arthritis isn't surprising at Broly's age. At least you found out that it's not something more serious. I've heard that serrapeptase is good stuff. It comes from silkworms. I tried to get some silkworms for Puff but nobody ships them to Alaska -- not even the eggs. My vet was...

So when you get to be my age, you don't celebrate birthdays anymore. One more year closer to the inevitable, although I come from a long-lived family. My father lived to be 98 and two of his aunts lived to be over 100. Some 90s on my mother's side too. I don't think I'm going to last that...

So I had a few days of a computer problem that made it so I couldn't reply to your post. But my husband fixed it. Nice to have a computer wiz in the house. Happy belated birthday. Sounds like you and your beardies all had a good time. My sisters and their families and I used to go out for...

Hi... It's gradually getting warmer here -- 50s in the daytime. It's good when it doesn't warm up too fast because then the snow melts all at once and we have a puddly slushy mess. Not so bad this year -- a very few patches of snow left and things will be starting to turn green soon. My...

BTW, I had some technical difficulties trying to post this one, so don't worry if there's something weird about it.

No explanation huh? I guess it's a "fish thing." As long as he's not really hurting himself, I suppose it can be tolerated. Our weather is getting warmer veeerrry slooowwwly. Mid 40s in the daytime now and usually still below freezing at night. Typical for this time of year. We've had...

My husband named him Puff, after the song (Puff the Magic Dragon). It was his turn to name one because we already had a snake and I had named him "Squirmles" -- it seemed to fit.

Sounds like a lot of your critters are sexually frustrated :( I suppose you could let the beardies have their fun (if Jamie was willing, that is) and then just don't incubate the eggs (reptile birth control is fairly easy, compared to, say, cats and dogs) -- like put the eggs in the freezer or...

Yes I can see the pictures. Beautiful beardies. We have some good ones of Puff but I don't know how to put them on here. My husband would have to help me. So the second attempt at putting in our windows partially failed. Got the measurements wrong again, but a couple of them fit. 3-4 down...

Sorry to hear that you and your fish are not feeling well. I hope you both get better. I got to play with rats in the psych lab at the university around 15 years ago (doesn't seem that long) and fell in love with them. Cuddly little things, but then most people don't know that reptiles can be...

Hi... Yeah it's hard too get poop off beardies because their skin is so spiky or at least scaly even where there's no spikes. When Puff was younger he was pretty good about staying out of his poop -- he'd go "downstairs" to do it and then go back up on his basking platform which was clean...

Hi... I used to play with computer art -- usually making patterns of little squares with different colors. Your new art tablet is probably way more sophisticated than what I had -- that was probably more than 10 years ago or more. It was just the program that came with the standard software...

Hi... Sound like you're doing a pretty good job managing the stuff on your social media "plate." I know it can get out of hand sometimes. The only one I'm on is "NextDoor" where people post about what's going on in the neighborhood. Mostly lost cats and dogs and crime, and sometimes good and...

Hi... Getting used to being without Puff. Sometimes when I walk past where his tank used to be I still think for a moment that he's there, and then I remember that he's gone. I dream about him sometimes too. I like to hope that we gave him a good life. It's looking like we might end up with...