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BREEDING CRICKETS Step one: Preparing the habitat You want to figure out what you want to keep your crickets in, I use a 20 gallon aquarium and some use larger opaque totes. To prepare the tank, I put paper towels in the bottom <makes cleaning easier for me> then 4-5 egg crates. The egg...

I am going to put this here in hopes it may help some new owners understanding why their babies, juvies or new adults don't eat or poop when they bring them home. I hope this is ok? So you are ready for a new dragon to be brought into your home. There may be a few things new owners need to...

There was an interesting question posed by someone in the forum concerning coconut water for hydrating dragons. Well, me being me called Colorado State University College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences concerning this as I did not know and I trust the vets at the university. I spoke...

Now mind you I am no seamstress or builder but I did try. I redid Emily's tank and made her a canopy bed and all the bedding for it. She loves it and is snuggled down in it sound asleep. I took her out of it after I showed it to her and she made a bee line right back to it and climbed back...

Back in sept my house flooded and we lost our Geico to pneumonia due to it. I got Emmett and put him in a very well cleaned Geico's tank. I left all of Geico's stuff in there for Emmett after it was all cleaned and steamed/washed in hot water. Well its been 7 months and while I will never...

We are fast approaching the season where hurricanes and tornados will become once again part of our lives. With these bring power outages. We in Colorado have high winds that may knock out power, are not prone to but its not unheard of to have tornadoes. Now is the time to think about what to...

For those of you that have multiple beardies and are afraid of letting an infectious one out for fear of your other reptiles contracting the illness I have a suggestion for you. You can get some hospital blue pads at the drugstore, I call them chucks and put them in window sills, on furniture...

Here is a suggestion for dusting live prey for your beardie and it works great. If you have a parmesan cheese container with the double flip up lids it will work great. On one side of the lid is the shaker side with the round holes and the other side the pour side with the one large half moon...

I have been doing some research and found a Vet in Virginia who says that if a dragon accidentally ingests a firefly, which are lethal to dragons, and its early enough, you can administer activated charcoal to bind the toxins which may give you time to get your dragon to a vet for care and...

I have seen several on here saying kale is ok to feed to beardies. Kale is not a good staple food nor is spinach. Both of these are very high in oxalates and will bind calcium. When the oxalates bind the calcium, it makes it virtually unusable for your beardie. Beardies need calcium for their...

I have been reading a lot of papers from reptile authorities lately and discovered something interesting. I don't know that I can explain this properly but will try. It seems there is a lot more to the parietal than just sensing changes in light/shadow or even it causing a predator defense...

This is Rocky and he was kept on a walnut shell substrate. He apparently prolapsed through his vent and the owner did not see it or was neglectful of it. The walnut shells created a lot of damage to the vent area along with the prolapse. He was impacted on the shells and this is the result...

Chick peas for humans can balance blood sugars and with all the things I read in ER or Health about dragons being hypo or hyper glycemic I am wondering if a mashed up or finely cut chick pea can help or even with the iron content in chick peas if mashed can help with iron deficient dragons...

Emily is almost two years old and 578 grams todays weigh in. I don't feel anything on her tummy and I know that doesn't always mean anything. I hope I am wrong in my thoughts but, the last couple of days she is digging under her hammock a bit then lays down like she's backed herself in under...

As some of you may know I lost my Geico at just under two yrs old to an unknown illness. I have no clue what took his little life with the exception of a possible URI or pneumonia. I can never replace my beloved Geico and would never try to. The day Geico died I had to go get crickets for my...

I lost my beloved Geico this morning about 11 am 12/28/13 at just under 2 years old. I don't know what happened with him, he was lifeless with no heartbeat and no lung sounds this morning when I went to feed them. It wasn't till later in cleaning his tank that I found thick saliva that was...

I am wondering something, Geico and Emily are both in shed. Geico is miserable with the shed coming off and being so floppy..most of his shed is still firmly attached but, my question is, is it ok to trim the shed thats flopping so its not irritating them so much? I mean its just hanging there...

I took a large green mesh hammock and used it for the pattern for my hammocks and had some really cute fabric to make them out of.

Painting a background for my baby Emilys viv...hers is a beach party theme and is looking really cute so far HER VIV The background I am painting on canvas to put behind her viv Its going to be two panels sky and clouds with the water laid in right panel is almost done..laid in the palms...

Meet EM my new petsmart baby...I dont know if shes a she or if hes a he so EM is for Emmett or Emily Em is so very soft and her scales are different a bit from Geico's..but shes a pretty little one and already tore up some tiny dubia nymphs and salad...right now all she has is a basking...