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I drink a lot of Powerade Zero. As I was reading the bottle's nutrition content, I saw that it has no sugar, no calories, no protein, and no fat. Yet it still has the electrolytes. It dawned on me that this is completely safe for beardies. I'm aware that people are hesitant to give their beardie...

I went in there a little while ago to look at some reptile supplies. I saw 3 adult dragons on display. There were two older dragons together in a 20 gallon long tank, with a food dish full of carrots (heard that excessive carrot isn't good for them.. hypervitaminosis?). They were both very...

It has been over a month since Curt passed away, and his horrible death still makes me cry. For those of you who don't know, Curt had been on calci-sand. At one point he became severely impacted to where he collapsed in my hands and stopped breathing with a black beard and horrible stress marks...

I've looked online, and I really don't like the basking platforms or half-logs with the opportunity to hide underneath them during the day (I don't like the idea of my future dragon being able to hide from his UV light for who knows how long every day.. I've seen for myself what lack of UV does...

I have decided that in the future, I want a bearded dragon. It will be my first experience owning one, but I have learned A LOT from this forum and from experience with my boyfriend's dragon before he passed away from impaction. I know everything, EVERYTHING there is to know about how to avoid...

:idea: I was thinking of new safe substrates earlier (aka non-loose substrates) and came up with the idea of sandpaper.. it would make the viv look great, has the look of sand without the risk of impaction, smelling gross, or harboring germs/poo/urate/parasites the way sand does, and it would...

I am not a beardie owner, but I have been on this forum for a while, especially since my boyfriend's beardie (Curt) became ill. Unfortunately, he passed away at the age of 3 1/2 this past Monday (he didn't even make it halfway to the normal life expectancy thanks to complications from being...

As a lot of you know, Curt has been very ill the last few months, having suffered a lot of painful after-effects from several calcium sand impactions.. though we removed the sand over 2 months ago, he has still been sick. This morning he was doing better, FINALLY pooping on his own after us...

As some of you know, Curt (my boyfriend's beardie) has been through a lot.. calcium sand impactions, repeated impactions afterward, accidentally chomping on a glass eyedropper, puking, not digesting his food.. :( Saturday, my boyfriend informed me that Curt had again not pooped in over 2 weeks...

So I've heard and read on here various times that a beardie will very rarely turn down butternut squash, and is a good staple not to mention a great treat for them. . How do you go about preparing it for them? (I'm 28 and have cooked maybe 10 days in my life, so bear with me :oops: :lol: ) My...

When we take Curt out to let him explore, he will go around the entire room and lick everything.. the laptop, the bed frame, the wall, the dresser. My boyfriend thinks this is a territorial display and that when he does it, he's getting upset.. however, Curt has never once shown any signs of...

Curt (my boyfriend's beardie) is impacted AGAIN.. the FIFTH time in 3 months. The first three were from calci-sand and low temperatures. We have since fixed the problem, but he absolutely refuses to poop unless he is helped with a bath and a tummy rub. When he does poop, he turns black...

For those of you who have surprised your beardies with a ReptiSun 10.0 and they had a different light or hadn't had one before, how did they behave differently once this light was added? I am not sure of the make of my boyfriend's UV tube for his beardie, but I know it isn't the ReptiSun. I...

Last time I let Curt out, I put him on the bed so I could change the paper towels over to terrarium liner in his viv. He doesn't usually move around much, but I turned around a few seconds later and didn't see him. I heard a rustle, and he was in the gap between the open wrought iron bed frame...

Curt's basking spot wasn't hot enough with a 60w basking bulb, so we used a 100w household bulb instead. We noticed that he wasn't basking.. he was literally pushing his basking stick out of the way and laying on the floor of his viv under the 100w bulb. I moved the stick back one day, and...

Lately Curt has been shedding, and not pooping unless bathed with a belly rub. I gave him a bath yesterday, and a bunch of tiny little red things came out with it. The last few times he's went, he has strained and black bearded. Today, I gave him a bath to help him shed. I noticed he was...

I found these pics of Curt on my computer, and he's too cute not to share! :blob8: It's bath time for you, big guy! :D Not too happy with his second bath of the day.. look at that black beard! :lol: Sorry buddy, but you were shedding and not going poo! (I told you guys he can give a great...

My boyfriend's beardie, Curt, suffered 3 painful calcium sand impactions (he is no longer on sand, surprisingly didn't have a prolapse, but he was in quite a bit of pain). The last impaction he had was about a month ago, but last time I saw that he pooped (this past Monday), it had to be induced...

OK.. so I totally feel stupid asking this, but what is the best way to go about drying your beardie off after its bath? I know you're supposed to get them dry and them immediately back in the viv so they can warm up, but what is the best way? I wrap Curt in a towel with his head poking out so...

So we forgot that we had used the water mist bottle for something else, and had forgotten to turn it from stream back to mist. We went to go give Curt a mist, and accidentally blasted him with the hard spray right on the nose. He didn't so much as flinch.. he tilted his dripping wet head up at...