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Haha wow. :) Sounds like a full day job keeping all those dragons fed and clean, and possibly treated for illness! How big is a normal beardie territory in the wild, btw?

From my own experience with creating heat gradients in terrariums, I'd say there was a cool area in the middle. I would say the tank's floor width was maybe 1.5-2 feet. Slightly harder to say than the length. I'm glad to hear the beardies may have been quite ok in there after all. I hope the...

Hi, it's me visiting pet stores again to appreciate the reptiles and other creatures. This time I saw a bearded dragon set-up that made me wonder if it made any sense. I know you're best off not housing adult beardies together. There were three in the tank - but the tank was very long, well...

Really! Wow. :( I'm very sorry to hear you and your beardie went through that, Phurba.

Poor baby. I hope his internal organs are normal so he can live a long, pampered life despite the missing limbs.

Poor, poor Mortimer. At least he died loved. I don't even have a beardie (yet) but it always makes me so infuriated when pets are bought and treated like they were toys. I don't have a clue about the laws in your area (I'm Finnish) but I wonder if those guys could be reported to the police for...

Sarah over at Sarah's Bearded Dragon Rescue (a great blog about nursing sickly/neglected beardies and some other lizards back to health) has successfully trained her beardies to drink from their water bowls. http://sarahsbeardeddragonrescue.blogspot.fi/2016/09/drinking-from-water-bowl.html

I saw a beardie in a pet store with cuttlebone in the tank. I know pet store personnel sometimes have wrong/dangerous ideas about animal care, so I wanted to check this one, because if it actually would work, it'd be so convenient. And if it doesn't, that's one more pet store beardie to feel bad...

I found some old threads about this, but they were very short and I hope for some more opinions. Does it make any sense at all to keep a cuttlefish bone in a beardie tank? I am talking about an unseasoned, washed and boiled, perfectly clean cuttlefish bone. Would a beardie learn/like to chew...

Yes, a permit system would be a good idea. It sickens me that animals are sold as "great gifts" or are "on sale", for gawd's sake, they are not toys. The hatchlings I saw did have some live worms in there that weren't mealworms, unfortunately I didn't recognise what they were but at least it...

Thanks for the replies, all. Poor little babies, I keep thinking of them. I've also been thinking of this huge and quite plump beardie in a different store, who was living on sand. His/her tank was clean and nice, but... sand. :( Sometimes I wish I worked in a pet store so I could find out...

I've been visiting some pet stores for supplies for my other pets, and now and then will come across bearded dragons. I don't have any of my own yet. Today in one pet store, there were 7 baby bearded dragons in one tank. Without the tail they were about the size of my finger (I have large hands...

Thanks! I've been reading a lot, and it looks like I can't afford a dragon for a while yet because I had better be prepared for vet bills and sometimes costly experiments with tank supplies and feeders. I must also locate a local-ish vet who can treat lizards. Oh, I'm sure the little fellow...

Hi, I'm etanainen, 31 and from Finland! I don't have any lizards yet, though I adore them and want to study them as much as possible before getting my first. I dream of owning many different lizards one day, and a Beardie seems like a good one to begin the lizard keeping hobby with. I don't...