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    Dead or Something Else?

    Ouros this morning seemed alright but I found him laying on his side next to his food dish a few hours later. He is black-bearded and opened his jaw to snap at me when I moved him under his basking light but has since been unresponsive to anything. Yesterday a new basking light (30 days old)...
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    Mentally Retarded or Insane?

    Well after 8 months with Ouros we are sure he is mentally retarded. Bit of a list of issues. As a baby he kept eating his tail and earned him his name, he literally ate as much as he could reach. Growing up in a large glass terrarium he would bang his head on the glass til he too injured to...
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    Funding a Larger enclosure

    So I have been in need of a large enclosure with SOLID sides for my dragon for while, I have to get him and hold him a hour or so a day and remove him from his current one. He is a bit...special. He will run at glass walls and head butt them, try digging into them, run at them full force then up...
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    Training and habit changing

    OK Ouros has had this issue for months, he surfs....like crazy. He has always ran up the sides of his 40gal terrarium since I got him. I have tried adjusting temps and lights and this has no effects. I have installed a foam background he can climb on and he runs up it and claws at his light on...
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    Ouros Update November

    Still about 16" and decent size, running into a few issues. I only feed 10 roaches twice a day now and try to keep some Freeze Dried Nutrigrubs available. I am resorted to making "Turkey Worms" (I make worms out of ground turkey mixed with his supplements and extruded through a icing bag into...
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    Scared of Crickets

    Well we stopped feeding Ouros live crickets a few months ago and changed to dubia after a incident with them attacking her when a few got loose in her enclosure. We have since sometimes tweezer fed larger ones reluctantly. I ordered 500 crickets since they were cheap, they shipped us the wrong...
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    Solution to Feeding Ouros

    Ouros, 4-5month old 13 inch Female Well as you might recall I could not get her live feeders for almost a week, and lived on meal worms, turkey, and greens. I then got the money and ordered her 500 dubia...and they all came in dead. I put the dead ones in her feeder dish anyway and tried...
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    Feeding with no budget

    Well life issues, I lost my catering gigs for next month, I have no money left and am living on food stamps. I can not afford live feeders for the next month (she just finished the last of the dubia), I am feeding Ouros chopped up Roasted Crickets I got from a local market on food stamps...
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    1 Month with Ouros

    Well Ouros has his/her quirks, first off I was told he was a male when I got him, but now the two bumps they showed me are gone.....flashlight method looks female...but only 8" long at this point and still young I think. I tried cactus and only had one piece never touched it again, pumpkin...
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    Can they understand?

    So me and Ouros have been with each other 24 days now. I noticed some things and wonder, can they tell when your stressed from like 6-10 feet away? I got stressed today due to getting denied financing on my dream food truck business, and start feeling panicky about getting by on my funds without...
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    2 Weeks with Ouros

    SO I have had Ouros for a bit over 2 weeks, got him he was about 4" long...he is now just a smidge under 7".....did not know they grow this fast. Feeding, Plants, I recently got him som cactus that I mince up for him and he eats some of it, he still prefers chard. I was told to try some soft...
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    How is this?

    I know it needs some work, I need to see about getting that ceramic heating element for night time instead of the nocturnal bulb. I thought I could turn it off with the other lights at night but his tank will drop below 70F. I also need to see about getting a log or something for him to chill...
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    Meet Ouros

    So first about me, Male late 20s been looking at a beardy for over a year, and with me living alone with multiple mental issues (Asperger, ADHD, Bipolar), and auto immune diseases (Celiac, Ulcerative Colitis, Multiple allergies), I decided to finally get one for a emotional support animal. I...
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