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I'll be moving down to Florida in mid-June to start medical residency and of course I'll be taking Ardbert with me. Just a real shame we can't bring reptiles into the cabin (the misconceptions about reptiles need to die already) with us so now I'm trying to figure out what the best reptile...

Yesterday, I came home and saw Ardie had laid a single egg outside his hide with a bit of poop on it. The only other thread I could find about a beardie laying a single egg involves a clearly gravid one. But not only is his belly still pretty flat, but I don't feel any other eggs. Granted, the...

After about a week of no pooping this time around (normally it's every couple days or so), Ardie finally took a huge dump a bit ago. While checking consistency though, I noticed that this time the urate, while soft and pasty on the outside, feels rock hard in the middle. I know rock hard urate =...

Hi all, yes, I'm still alive and I'm back with a question that I've been wondering these past few months. Ardbert finally hit 16 inches in December, but I hardly noticed much change to my dismay until just today when I found he's almost 17 inches (thought still not quite there). However, when I...

So, a weird thing Ardie's started doing these past few days is that when he wakes up in the morning, he may be looking out his hide but wouldn't come out on his own. A couple occasions where he was sleeping at his basking spot, I had even discovered he'd climbed down and into his hide (which is...

Ever since I got Ardie some regular sized (i.e. 1-1.5 in) superworms, he's gotten progressively less interested in Dubias until he's completely ignoring them at this point. >81 He's currently 5 months old and a pretty good size (he was nearly 150 g last weighing) but I'm not sure if it's a good...

As a quick disclaimer, I'm still playing things safe for the most part and not giving Ardbert anything bigger than the space between his eyes (which is presently a little over an inch), but he generally loves his big boy bugs (i.e. 1" dubia). It is unfortunate then that he is presently a bit...

I noticed earlier that Ardie has gotten longer in addition to thinner (which had me very anxious since he's been ridiculously stubborn about eating dubias the past few days) and while he's not emaciated at the moment, I could see and feel his ribs from the side of his belly sometimes and I want...

Been meaning to start up a topic here for a while to both document my, as of this writing, 4-month-old beardie, Ardbert (or Ardie, as he's affectionately called) and share some funny shenanigans we get up to that aren't necessarily caught on camera. Life was pretty hectic the past month, alas...

I was pretty happy to see Ardbert actually has a HUGE increase in appetite as opposed to the usual decrease I hear about when his limbs and head kicked into shed. That is, until he started utterly DEMOLISHING my feeder population and I seem to have somehow misplaced a fresh container of phoenix...

I'm about to get a shipment of 1/2" Dubias in probably tomorrow or so, and since Ardie tends to have leftovers, it'd make my life easier on not wasting his veggies. However, the Repashy Beardie Buffet isn't something I've had much luck introducing yet (he's intrigued by the taste but I've only...

I noticed today that whenever Ardie is pressing himself up against that corner (he really likes doing that these past few days for some reason o_O), he has this MASSIVE DENT at his lumbar spine just like this: He never did that before when he pressed up to the glass, and he definitely weighs...

We had a nice little USPS package scale that worked well for taking my Chihuahua's weight as she was growing up, but it's sadly gone MIA for months now so I am short of a scientific method of tracking my baby's growth. So far, I've just been going off how much he's eating and how much he's...

I’m planning on giving dubias as a supplementary staple to a main staple of phoenix worms and silkworms, so I was wondering if I only periodically give dubias to my beardie, do I still need to calcium dust them? Trying to decide if I need to get a small container of calcium or if Ardbert will be...

Ardbert is only 3 months old, so I know he still has a ways to go before it’s time to make the dietarh switch, but I was wondering at what point do we start to gradually decrease the bugs and increase the produce? Just want to be prepared and ensure my baby boy stays at a healthy weight for...

Hello, all! As you can gather from the title, I am the new proud parent of a baby/juvenile bearded dragon! Say hello to my son, Ardbert (Ardie, for short)! First picture ever from Day 1 (10/02/2020). He suddenly decided to eat that silkworm that was sitting there for a while as soon as he...