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Well I've got some, probably bad, news. We've decided as a family that we need to find Lizzie a new home. My girlfriend and I are going to be studying abroad next semester and my parents are too busy with work to take care of Lizzie's demanding needs. She really needs an experienced bearded...

UPDATE: Good news! Besides having pooped one more time, Lizzie just now ate about 15-20 roaches, which, while on the small side for her, is the first time she's eaten anything besides one small hornworm in 7-8 days! It wasn't easy getting her to eat, I had to stand there shaking the roaches for...

Quick update, looks like I spoke too soon, she pooped! After the bath and some basking under the newly raised light she started being a lot more active (she's even now running around her tank, probably wall running but I'm just so happy to see her moving around again!). Her poop looked fairly...

I'll definitely remove the sand, I'm not super worried about her eating it since I feed her directly out a bowl almost always, however, it is possible she ate some sand the very last time I fed her (it's been 5 days since she's eaten anything :( ) I was trying to figure out what was wrong with...

They're Phytoseiid and Orbatid mites, not sure what constitutes a red mite. The Orbatids are all pure white and the Phytoseiids are brownish red to white (presumably the young ones are white). What would be the signs of mites on my bearded dragon?

Her tank is 16 inches high, the basking light is 9 1/2 inches away from the ground, I use the Reptisun UVB tube light and Lizzie lays on a wooden cave thing about 6 inches away from the UVB light. She doesn't have anything under the basking light because it's too close to the ground for anything...

PodunkKhaleesi, yeah I didn't except brumation to be an issue with Lizzie since our temperatures rarely drop below 50-60, but I have to admit it seems like she is showing signs of brumation all the same! God knows In-n-out is his personal gift to us SoCal residents lol, I certainly have too much...

Sigh, it seems yet another species of mite has joined the crusade against my isopods. These ones closely resemble orbatids, however, they are completely white. I'm hoping they are just a species of orbatids and won't do any harm to my isopods but currently I'm under the impression that all these...

PodunkKhaleesi, I'm in Orange County too, small world! Good to see another OC resident here. I'll try ordering the sample pack from rainbow mealworms, I tried buying from them before but it was seriously overpriced (think I was getting BSFL). But $8 for 25 sounds way better than the deal I got...

Good to know, I've only been feeding them dog food when they ignore the bug burger, and recently fish food because they've been ignoring both the bug burger and the dog food :? ! I don't want her to get gout but thankfully the dubias really haven't been munching down on the dog food very much...

I'm in southern California so really, our winter is the same temperature as most places' spring. It has been raining the last two days and she's now actually basking directly under the lamp. Normally she'll stay in the spot that's the farthest away from the heat lamp. I think the lamp is 100...

Also, would beneficial nematodes do damage to my springtails? I'm hoping my springtails will just keep breeding and outbreed the mites and nematodes but right now there seems to be 5 mites for each springtail and my hopes aren't high. I'm very happy that I moved about 10 springtails into a...

Great idea with the baking, do you know how high I should make the temperature? I don't want the leaves catching fire in my oven! I'll probably wrap them in aluminum foil before baking them to help prevent any accidental fires. Thanks so much for the help KeyBlu! The two people I turn to for...

She's had BSFL, waxworms, crickets, superworms, and dubias before. She showed very little interest in the BSFL (the 200 I bought went to waste, maybe 170 of them died of old age or became flies). I've also tried putting different types of worms on her salad hoping they would grab her attention...

oh, also, it seems that somehow nematodes have also entered the springtail colonies, I'm unsure about if they've entered the isopod and roach colonies. Should I be concerned about them? I do have video of them under a magnifying glass and tomorrow I'm hoping to get some video with them under a...

Thanks! I got some advice about the mites and it seems I may have been providing my insects with too much fish food, the springtails, at least for the last 2 weeks, have been having the fish food get really moist and weren't eating it all, they used to finish everything I put in by the very next...

Thanks so much KeyBlu! She's about a year and a half old now, she's very big (never had a bearded before but she's currently 20 inches total). I managed to get her to eat today, not much, maybe 12 roaches total if I'm being optimistic (not large roaches either, maybe 2 were the size of the...

I have several colonies of springtails and pillbugs/sowbugs, and one big colony with Dubias for breeding, tenebrio obscurus, lesser mealworms, demestid beetles, pillbugs, sowbugs, and springtails in it. Suddenly I've noticed that all of the colonies are infested with tiny red bugs that seem to...

So I've had Lizzie for about 4 months now and she's really improved since coming into my care, however, her previous owners weren't providing her with any UVB light at all, and the only things they fed her were superworms. I've since switched her diet to dubias and she'll eat them no problem...