Overparanoid
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hey, i have 2 baby bearded dragons called Ben and Jerry (not very original i know lol) who i don't know the sex of yet. they apparently hatched just before xmas. so i went to to pet shop on wednesday to ask questions and buy everything i needed before i bought the dragons, they told me that i should give them 12 crickets twice a day and to put them of calci sand. so i did as they said, i had a viv at home that i set up with a heat mat covered in calci sand, a uvb coil light on the same side as the mat and a normal rock to heat up via the heat mat with a water dish and a hide area in the cool side.
after i let this warm up i walked back to the pet shop and asked bought 2 beared dragons as he suggested this as they prefere to be in pairs (which i now know not to be true) and some small crickets. i took them home and put them in their viv and gave them a feed later that day. when i finally got my internet working again, i came online to double check everything was ok, came across this site and found out that calci sand is a big no, that they need to be fed 3 times a day as much as they can in 10-15 mins and that they don't live well together.
what i've done to turn this around is i've changed their substrate to kitchen paper, i feed them more often with more crickets and i've just got to save up for a new viv to separate them when i get the chance.
now i have a few questions:
first, what am i missing in my viv? i feel like somethings not right there.
also, what veg do they eat?
how to i get them to drink more?
and what basic care do i need to improve on?
i'm still upset that i didn't get the right info from the store and i just want to make things right now.
i did introduce my dragons on the intro page but i just want to show u how small these dragons are as i'm a little suspitious about their age:
*Edit*
As reqested below, I'm now attatching some photos of my viv. its home made btw as is only temporary until they are bigger and until they are separated, it's dimentions are: H-15 " W-24" D-12"
this is the viv
this is my repti-glo 10.0 uvb light
where that wire ends is where the heat mat is.
thats the cool end with their water bowl that they don't drink from
and this is just a side view to show the whole tank
any help and advice would be fully appriciated
thankyou x
after i let this warm up i walked back to the pet shop and asked bought 2 beared dragons as he suggested this as they prefere to be in pairs (which i now know not to be true) and some small crickets. i took them home and put them in their viv and gave them a feed later that day. when i finally got my internet working again, i came online to double check everything was ok, came across this site and found out that calci sand is a big no, that they need to be fed 3 times a day as much as they can in 10-15 mins and that they don't live well together.
what i've done to turn this around is i've changed their substrate to kitchen paper, i feed them more often with more crickets and i've just got to save up for a new viv to separate them when i get the chance.
now i have a few questions:
first, what am i missing in my viv? i feel like somethings not right there.
also, what veg do they eat?
how to i get them to drink more?
and what basic care do i need to improve on?
i'm still upset that i didn't get the right info from the store and i just want to make things right now.
i did introduce my dragons on the intro page but i just want to show u how small these dragons are as i'm a little suspitious about their age:
*Edit*
As reqested below, I'm now attatching some photos of my viv. its home made btw as is only temporary until they are bigger and until they are separated, it's dimentions are: H-15 " W-24" D-12"
this is the viv
this is my repti-glo 10.0 uvb light
where that wire ends is where the heat mat is.
thats the cool end with their water bowl that they don't drink from
and this is just a side view to show the whole tank
any help and advice would be fully appriciated
thankyou x