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I adopted a 5 year old male beardie named Draco a few months back. Things were going really well until his brumation cycle started. Over the last few months, he went from 580 grams to 550 and one of his forelimbs became pretty swollen in the hand and joint. He was blackbearding frequently. His...

So I ordered twenty adult dubia + 500 babies from Dubi Deli on... the 7th, I think. I'd have to check my records to be certain. On the 14th, I saw something really weird on one of the adult females: Sorry about the poor picture quality. All I've got is my cell phone. Anyway, my first...

I'm really confused about how to prepare butternut squash for my beardies. I've cooked it before, but they just weren't interested in it. Lately, I've heard it's because it's supposed to be served raw. Is this accurate? Should I just like... cube or shred it for them instead of baking it?

I raise my own roaches, but I'm allergic to them (not badly, thankfully; I just get extremely dry and itchy skin when I handle them too frequently). I lose way too much dexterity when I wear gloves, so I can't clean the roach bin as often as I'd like. So I've been considering getting a...

This boy just came home yesterday. He's a five year old male who is MASSIVE. He's a bit over 600 grams and, at the moment, a bit of a grump. Relocation stress hasn't harmed his appetite. As soon as he got here, he started eating roaches and he had a bite of squash today. His previous owner...

For the past four weeks, my 1 year old male dragon has been eating less and less. Lately, he's been refusing any sort of food at all and just wants to burrow under his paper towels and sleep. He's active if he's taken out of his tank and occasionally will bask on his branches. Husbandry: Warm...

I had Ngarehu out for his usual nap last night and, when I was petting him, I noticed he kept flinching. Eventually I realized that it was only when my fingers stroked a particular black scale on his back. I'm pretty sure it wasn't there last week. I'm wondering if it's a bruise or if I...

Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I wasn't sure where else to put it. There's a high chance that I'll have some surgery this summer. It's a much needed procedure that I'm pretty excited to finally get but I worry about my reptiles. Do you think it will be safe for me to continue to look...

My almost year-old male dragon hasn't pooped for almost a week. Daily warm baths haven't helped and his appetite has decreased. He's never been a particularly good eater, but now he's outright refusing anything that isn't a hornworm or butterworm. I've made a vet appointment for him tomorrow...

Ngarehu is 10 1/2 months old. I've been expecting him to shed soon, but this dark tail is a new thing. When I went to feed him this morning, he was cold (but he'd been sleeping in his hide, so I expected some of that) and his tail was unusually dark. Is it stuck shed? Or something worse...

I live on wellwater out here so it's extremely hard. For my reptiles' drinking water, I've just been buying bottled water but today it occurred to me that my beardie's bathwater is just warmed tap water. Can this harm him? He doesn't drink water, so this is his source of moisture for the most...

Three weeks ago, I became the proud owner of a (probable) male bearded dragon that I've named Ngarehu. He was hatched on June 1 and weighed around 14 grams when I got him. He's now 22g and maybe eight inches long with tail. He just doesn't seem to be growing at all. As far as I know, he is not a...

I don't have any bearded dragons yet, but I'm getting my first baby within weeks. I'm pretty nervous, but excited. I'm hoping to learn about any specific needs baby beardies have. The clutch that I'm looking at was born in June. I know they eat a lot more and require higher temps, but I'm...