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After baby-sitting a classroom beardie during holidays and summer for the past several years, we finally got her full time when her teacher "daddy" retired and his wife refused to let him bring any of his animals home (yeah, I know . . . ). Liz has been on a fairly regular laying schedule...

This summer I babysat a female beardie that belongs to a school. Over the course of the summer my fellas (who are on opposite sides of the room and can't even see each other) saw her briefly maybe half a dozen times. They may have seen her out of the corner of their eye as I carried her to the...

I've noticed that the ears of my dragons are different colors. Dubs is a bright orange/gold dragon with a tan membrane inside his ears. Richard is a dusty gray (light tan when he's really happy) and the inside of his ears is black and shiny. Didn't know if that was a reflection of health...

Does anyone know if it's possible to preserve dandelion flowers? Dubs absolutely adores them, and we're having a strange Indian Summer sort of thing here in Kansas, so there are lots of them around. I'd love to be able to preserve a quantity of flowers for him as treats throughout the winter.

My Richard is having a hard time with his current shed. He always has difficult sheds, but this time the top of his head just won't cooperate. He's really uncomfortable, and tries to scrape it on whatever he can, poor little man. My questions are: Yesterday in his bath I was spraying warm water...

It broke my heart that Brandon was forced to rehome his three beautiful dragons, and was wondering if he found them all good homes. Any info? Any hope that he can reclaim them eventually?

I took Richard to the vet Friday because of a worrisome looking spot on his tail related to a retained shed. He's had problems shedding his tail for several months - I've tried all the products, in addition to vitamin E, aloe vera, you name it, but he had several tight bands on his tail. Finally...

I've been trying to find a longer fluorescent fixture for a 6500K bulb for Richard's viv (right now it's just 18" and only brightens up half of his tank) but why the heck is it so hard to find fixtures and bulbs that are compatible? I've found 24" GE 6500K (daylight) T12 bulbs at Walmart, but...

Richard's viv has a great piece of driftwood that is the perfect height for basking, but his claws are so flat from the tile floor that he has trouble gripping it and feeling secure. When he's on that log he slides on his belly like a snake, but on the others he trots around normally. How can I...

Got a reptarium for Richard and Dubs, so Richard is hangin' out with me in the sun this afternoon (it's almost 90 here!) Since reptariums are fine mesh, what percentage of UVB is getting through? He's clearly enjoying it, other than blackbearding at a robin that keeps bouncing around the yard...

Our little guys had SolarGlo 160 MVBs for UVB before I changed over to ReptiSun 10.0 tubes a few months ago, and I still have the old SolarGlo bulbs. Would it be okay to use them for basking bulbs, since both beardies absolutely loved them? I put one in Dubs's viv yesterday when the...

Had to post this pic of our little man, Dubs, whose favorite basking spot is a cement yard gnome. He lies on top of its head, clings to the front, or curls around the base. We tell everyone he's a gnomo.

Neither one of my beardies will touch veggies with liquid calcium on them. Just out of curiosity I tasted it and it was incredibly bitter. I'd always heard that reptiles couldn't taste bitterness, but when i sprayed it on some collards, Richard hated it so much that he wouldn't eat collards for...

I just replaced a SolarGlo 160 MVB with a ReptiSun 10.0 tube and a variety of heating bulbs, but I've noticed that the ReptiSun isn't very bright. Is that normal? Our big baby loves it, though, so there's definitely a difference in UVB output. Within 10 minutes of replacing it yesterday, he had...

My two little men are happy and healthy, but I have a question regarding vitamins. I spritz their veggies three times a week with three squirts of Zilla vitamin supplement with beta carotene, but the three squirts is a total guess; I picked that number out of thin air. There's no info on the...

Our two unrelated male bearded dragons (Dubs, 10-months old and Richard, 1 year old) are in separate vivs about 6 feet apart. They can see each other, as well as each other's reflections. Usually they don't fuss, but for the last week they've been doing the "bob and wave show" at least half the...