awkwardpossum
Member
Hello all. You may have me posting on the dragon ER board yesterday. The situation is resolved, so I figured I should come on here and properly introduce myself.
My name is Anna, I'm a long-time reptile enthusiast, first time beardie owner from Boston Massachusetts. For months I've been researching and planning on getting my first bearded dragon; lots of meticulous planning, lots of researching substrates and foods and lights. And then all that basically stacked up to nothing when I rescued a beardie from a guy on craigslist. The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind!
The beardie in question is named Dog. What her previous name was, I don't know; the owner never gave me one. He also didn't know what sex it was, but near as I can tell it is a female dragon. She is between 4-5 years old and a bit sickly from a long term lack of UVB (which I have corrected) but I am very smitten with her already.
She was in way too small of a tank on red-dyed sand (which as you can see, has stained her feet), and according to the owner he'd been feeding her mainly lettuce and mealworms. These are pictures from the first night I brought her home and got her set up in a much bigger tank that I had laying around.
Her first bath!
I'll probably get some more recent pictures up soon .
She also has her own Tumblr for me to share her health progress on, because I'm just that obsessed already. It's http://weirdscalydog.tumblr.com/ . Right now I'm actually doing a sketch commission/donation drive to drum up enough money to get her into a vet bc I am in sore need of a professional opinion on her current health.
This website seems like a great resource (I've been using a lot of the care sheets in my preliminary research), and I'm looking forward to talking and sharing Dog's progress with you all!
My name is Anna, I'm a long-time reptile enthusiast, first time beardie owner from Boston Massachusetts. For months I've been researching and planning on getting my first bearded dragon; lots of meticulous planning, lots of researching substrates and foods and lights. And then all that basically stacked up to nothing when I rescued a beardie from a guy on craigslist. The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind!
The beardie in question is named Dog. What her previous name was, I don't know; the owner never gave me one. He also didn't know what sex it was, but near as I can tell it is a female dragon. She is between 4-5 years old and a bit sickly from a long term lack of UVB (which I have corrected) but I am very smitten with her already.
She was in way too small of a tank on red-dyed sand (which as you can see, has stained her feet), and according to the owner he'd been feeding her mainly lettuce and mealworms. These are pictures from the first night I brought her home and got her set up in a much bigger tank that I had laying around.
Her first bath!
I'll probably get some more recent pictures up soon .
She also has her own Tumblr for me to share her health progress on, because I'm just that obsessed already. It's http://weirdscalydog.tumblr.com/ . Right now I'm actually doing a sketch commission/donation drive to drum up enough money to get her into a vet bc I am in sore need of a professional opinion on her current health.
This website seems like a great resource (I've been using a lot of the care sheets in my preliminary research), and I'm looking forward to talking and sharing Dog's progress with you all!