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I feel compelled to post a memorial to our beloved bearded dragon Blaze who passed away suddenly this morning. He was a joy to us for almost 8 and a half years. So we take comfort in knowing he was well cared for and made it to a good age for a bearded. He had been fine until we were away...

Perhaps others could give you better, more informed answers, but I'll offer from my experience with the one bearded we've had. We have a large rock ours perches on and sleeps on until it's time to brumate, then he curls up in a corner and sleeps... and sleeps. He's not really shown any...

I'm suspecting that since brumating is all that well understood to begin with, I won't have much luck with this post, but I'll try anyway. Our bearded is a heavy brumater. He starts slowing down in late summer every year and then sleeps solid until about New Year's. Now that we've gotten used...

Our bearded is a heavy brumater. He's down for a solid three months + every year and starts slowing down significantly as soon as the days start getting shorter after June 22nd. He also seems to keep backing up about 2 weeks sooner every year which is a real pain, and he's been out now for...

I would bet that even if you kept them in an inner room with no possible natural light penetration, they'd still know what it's doing outside. Don't ask me how, but I just bet they would. Did you see the news just recently about scientists finally discovering why dogs turn in circles before...

Well, it can be normal this time of year for them to greatly slow down or stop eating as they start to brumate. BUT, in your case, I think there's a good chance there is more to it. We had the exact same pattern with our bearded years ago when we got it. About the same age, and the same...

I don't know about your particular bearded, but I would tend to doubt it. Ours is a particularly deep brumator. It actually took us a couple of years to figure it out and, as with many new bearded owners, we were concerned he was sick when late summer came his second year and all he did was...

With spring here now, he may be about to shed. Ours is obviously starting to shed on his head and has been going around rubbing it against things in his viv.

We order the cricket chow from Ghann's along with the crickets. We also use the crystals that you soak in water and then keep a handful of them in with the crickets for them to drink from. You can get enough to last for years dirt cheap on ebay. We keep both on plastic lids like saucers so it...

50 crickets is two meals for a bearded that size. Make sure you look at the articles on husbandry here on the site, especially the nutrition and feeding articles. For a single beardie, we decided raising a feeding colony was more work than it was worth, but we order crickets a 1000 at a time...

Sure sounds like brumation to me. We fell for that one too. Judging by ours, the first year, they don't really seem to brumate much, then the second year they do more their normal pattern. When ours was two, we became quite concerned in the fall when he did nothing but sleep all the time. We...

Hi. We have a male bearded dragon that is about 4-5 years old now. This winter, his behavior has changed quite a bit. This particular beardie brumates deeply every fall from about late August - early September, until just after New Year's. This year, he woke up and became active in early...

Just thought I'd post an update. He has seemed fine since. About a week after all this, he started shedding, so I think that is probably what it was all about. Thanks for all the help.

I just had to add... if this bothered you, boy, are you in for an education if you ever have a (human) baby of your own! :D

Yes, he was quite active and basked normally the rest of the day.

Less than 6 months. Thanks.

Hi everyone, We have a male bearded about 4 years old now. He has been very healthy after a bout with coccidia his first year. He's never had any other problems the past three years. He normally brumates from about Sept. - January every year. He did the same as usual this year and has been...

Our bearded has concerned us for a year now. He had pinworms and coccidia last year about this time and was treated and clean. Before that, he only pooped every few days. After that, he only pooped once a week or less. Then it got to every two weeks. Right now, it's been at least 3. We've...

We are going on vacation for a week soon, and our best option for our bearded is to let friends keep him at their house for the week. His normal viv is a 55 gallon 3/8" thick glass aquarium, so obviously we're not picking that up and moving it. Has anyone needed to house their dragon...

We have a juvenile bearded male that is about 1 year old this month. Last fall, he had pinworms and coccidia that we treated and he had a clean follow up. Before the infection, he pooped pretty much every day. We realized he had the infection when he started only going every 3-4 days and the...