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I'd be interested to hear whether other people's beardies have had behavior changes as they age. Figment is currently 4.5 years old, and for the entire time I've had him, he has given me huge issues drinking water. Won't drink from a bowl, won't drink from a bath, won't drink from droplets...

Figment has shunned dubia for about a year now… be suddenly “switched off” and wouldn’t touch them. I’ve tried offering them on a few occasions, and he snubbed them every time. I buy from dubia.com - and when buying small quantities, that’s expensive. Yesterday I went to a reptile expo and...

Hi and HELP! While being out for exercise in my computer room today, my beardie saw and ate a bug - I have no idea what kind it was; I thought it was dead, and was about to pick it up when my beardie pounced on it! Do I need to freak out now? Is there something I should do? Please advise!

Figment just pooped, and the feces are well formed and moist with a puddle of clear liquid around them... but the urates chunk is hard. I thought he was getting enough water, but could be wrong... but if he's not, what's with the puddle? Could the urates be hard because he's not pooping more...

Hi, all… Figment is now 2 years old and seems to be sporadically brumating. He’ll tuck into his hide and sleep for a few weeks, then gets up and basks for a day or two, then goes back to sleep. My questions: 1) is this normal brumation behavior? 2) should I offer food when he’s awake? Thanks!

I’m a fourth grade teacher, and recently added a leopard gecko to my classroom, donated by a good breeder. Soon after, a teacher friend followed my lead - only she got a young beardie. I adore my friend. And she means very well, and she does love the little guy - but her husbandry is not...

I just ordered a thousand giant mealworms plus bran. Does anyone know of a good setup/care sheet for someone NOT interested in breeding them, but just keeping them alive? What size of plastic box should I look for, for example? Thanks!

Figment has always been fed a dubia-heavy rotation of feeders... mostly dubia, mealworms, supers, and hornworms as a treat. I really can't afford silkworms on a regular basis and he's never been keen on crickets (and I find it a pain to hunt down and recapture the ones he won't eat or feed him...

I was just following a conversation on the Zen Habitats fan page on Facebook... TL/DR: owner was upset because she has a 4x2x4 for her beardie, and was told it wasn't the right size (not enough room to run around in vs. vertical space). Most of the comments were telling her that she's just...

I just ordered an awesome customizable sticker from Etsy - the Myxotics store. You can get a sticker with your beardie's name and photo on it, as well as other information (hatch date, morph, etc.) or a general zoo-type blurb about beardies in general. I opted to go for just the name and...

On a FB group, someone recently suggested to the owner of a female dragon that she get her beardie neutered to prevent egg binding. This sounded odd to me... I didn't know that dragons COULD be neutered, let alone that it might be desireable. I'm guessing it would be quite pricey and risky...

I'm getting concerned about Figment. I weighed him this evening, and he's 494g and 20" long (give or take a bit). Admittedly, I have not been good about weighing him regularly... the last time I weighed him was 2/1/2021 and he was 526g; I thought that was a bit off, but it was the first time...

I’m on the Zen Habitats FB group, and there’s a guy there advocating that beardies need a double dome fixture with two halogen flood lights on a dimmer for optimal heating. I’ve always used one Zilla basking bulb (150w, no dimmer needed). Now I’m perplexed. 1) Are halogens better, or just...

Figment's urates have been a bit hard lately, so I'm trying to find a way to get more hydration going on. He does not drink from the bath, nor from a syringe dropping blips on his nose, and he's been eating less than usual of his salads and veggies... I think this last is why I'm seeing a...

I know I'm probably worrying too much, but... I have Covid. Just recently diagnosed... picked it up at Christmas. I've heard of a few domestic and exotic mammal species being able to contract it (though not to pass it on to humans). I sincerely DOUBT that reptiles can catch it, but I have to...

Figment hasn't pooped for several weeks, but when he went today, I noticed that his urates were a bit hard and chalky. I gave him a hornworm, and will give him a bath (though it doesn't do much good, from what I see - he doesn't drink from it), but he's a hard dragon to hydrate. He's been...

For about 2-3 months now, since about midOctober, Figment has really scaled back on eating... just posted about him no longer eating his formerly favorite feeders, but he’s also back to eating only a couple mouthfuls of salad, too. Some days he doesn’t want anything at all. His weight is...

So I won a bucketload of free dubias from dubiaroaches.com... 200 retired breeders, 200 mediums, and 2000 really small ones. I have only one problem. Figment has, for a few months now, wanted nothing to do with dubias or crickets. I’ve been offering mealworms, superworms, and BSFL (which he...

At the risk of sounding too new-age woo-woo mystical... has anyone ever tried to communicate with their beardies using mental visualization? I just finished reading Jon Katz's book Talking to Animals, and while I'm not sure exactly where I stand on a lot of what he writes, I am curious. The...

I'm getting concerned about Figment. He ALWAYS has stress marks, no matter what he's doing, or what his conditions. Out playing? Stress marks. Being held? Stress marks. Eating? Stress marks. Basking? Stress marks! This is not a new development; it's been for about as long as I've had...