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UPDATE I put some fresh water in a dish for her and showed her where it was. She drank a ton (I've never seen her drink water willingly in all of 5 years), and ended up splashing herself around in it afterward. She laid two more big white eggs (most of the others were yellowish/whiteish), and...

My 5 year old beardie Ozma just started laying eggs today. I'm not sure when it started. She started with a clutch of about 30 eggs that I saw when I came home from work today, and then she laid two more, and seems to be struggling with more. I'm not sure what to do. She's solitary, and hasn't...

Personally, I'm a huge fan of tile as a substrate. Individual tiles are very easy to clean, and periodically, I'll just take them all out and give them a good scrub-down. Figuring out the size and quantity of tiles can be tricky, though. You want as little space between tiles as possible...

Hi everyone. I just recently got it in my head that I wanted to build stackable condos for my lizards. Part of this was a lack of space in my house, part of it was me really wanting another dragon but not wanting to have yet another tank lying on the floor somewhere. Anyway, below is a...

Ozma finally walked again! Her legs are still a little shaky, but she's using them again, and she seems to be gaining strength. I've just been feeding her her calcium supplements and dusted crickets like crazy. I'm just so excited that she is no longer dragging her legs behind her.

Just want to post an update: So far, Ozma still isn't really using her back legs, but the twitching has seemed to stop for the most part. They still shake when she tries to walk. I've been giving her 0.3ml of a calcium supplement from the doctor twice a day for about two weeks now. We are...

I took Ozma to the vet today. She's acutely hypocalcimic. She also has eggs, which is probably a large part of the sudden deficiency. She was given a shot of calcium supplement, and I was given Calciquid elixer to give her orally (0.17ml) twice a day. I'll be mounting her UVB lamp underneath...

She's about the same as she's been. So far she still hasn't eaten anything. She's not falling far. If you look at the picture of her setup, she just slides sideways off the long smooth log, and I put her fake plant there to help soften the fall when that does happen. She's able to get within...

I just got my new ReptiSun 10.0 UVB bulb today and set it up. She still seems bummed out all the time, though. Hasn't eaten anything. It's hard for her to move around, and she falls off her climbing log when she tries to climb it. I've got a vet appointment for her tomorrow afternoon, so...

I gave her some calcium this morning, she seemed to like it. But I haven't been home all day and won't be home until late tonight, so I don't really know what's going on today. She didn't eat anything yesterday, but I left her some food this morning. I'm going to call my girlfriend and see if...

I've definitely been thinking about it. Seeds are on sale all over the place right now. I'll start researching that pretty soon.

Thanks, I've already started addressing the diet issue. Romaine is out, collard and mustard greens, green beans, and squash are in. I wasn't aware that those were so readily available and also so cheap! I've learned quite a bit in the last couple days.

I bought a new plastic syringe-style dropper for Ozma's calcium supplement. She ate two orange pieces today that I know of before I had to leave for the day. She still has the shaking and weak legs. I'm calling the vet tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I can afford a visit. Otherwise I guess I'm...

My corn snake O'rly is about three years old and is a pretty big eater, usually. However, he hasn't eaten in about 3 or 4 weeks and I think it's because of a bad shed. He's had some light scales pealing off his head and he seems to have fairly loose scaling around his belly scales. I've been...

So, I gave Ozma another dose of the calcium from a dropper. And she has one hell of a bite. She ended up biting down on it and shattering the tip of the dropper. From the looks of it, there were a couple of pieces that shattered off, and I only found one of them. I think they kind of went...

I'm still wondering what that big pink thing is. How do all these companies get away with making bad bulbs? And why do all the pet stores carry and recommend bulbs that are so dangerous to reptiles? I gave her some of the calcium solution from a dropper last night. The bottle says: I don't...

Could it? It's been a couple days since she had pooped and she did feel a bit bloated today when i picked her up, but like I said, after I put her in the bath, she pooped after floating for only a couple of minutes. I don't know what that pink thing is wrapped in white junk, but it was...

I moved about two weeks ago, and since then, Ozma (approximately 2-year-old female) has seemed pretty happy with the new setup. She's been active, eating lots, and even seems to get along well with the cat. However, just today, I noticed a twitch in her back legs. I immediately started to...

About a week ago, Ozma started acting more lazy than her usual self, just lying around all day, ignoring crickets in her cage. This coincided with a burnout of one of her heat lamps. It was a couple days before I could get to the store to replace it, and since then, I've barely seen her eat...

I feel like the naming should be a very personal thing. My dragon has had two namings. Originally, as a baby, her name was Benjamin. I called her Benni. However, after finding out later that she was a female, we had a second naming, and now her name is Ozma. My girlfriend calls her Daisy...