beardielovers
Hatchling Member
We have spent countless hours on this forum and have learned a PILE of great stuff for general beardie care. We were expecting to get a baby beardie and watch it grow up. Instead, we got an amazing deal on an adult red. We figured we would double check a few things because we know adults are a bit different than babies and juveniles. I'll write what we know and we're open to any corrections or additional info we are needing.
Feeding - greens and veggies available and feed live feeders once daily
Bathing - couple 15 minutes, or longer, baths per week
Supplements - Calcium once a day (5 days), vitamins couple days a week
Our new beardie was being fed Romaine lettuce for greens (which we will be changing based on the feeding list at Beautiful Dragons website) and fed crix and/or superworms every other day. Also, was only misted. We will see if he will let us pick him up today (just brought him home last night) and if he will we'll see how he does in a bath. He does look a bit dehydrated so we want to bath him as soon as he'll let us. Would it hurt him to start giving feeders daily or do we need to increase that more slowly? I know if they were very under nourished it can be a bad thing to start feeding them lots of feeders too quickly so we wanted to make sure. He has a very dirty viv that we will be cleaning out ASAP as well. The enclosure is a poor setup so I don't imagine it was cleaned very often because it would be so involved. A quick 15-20 minute cleanup would never be possible with the enclosure setup. So...any advice on our new friend would be great! He's in the middle of a shed and still in his really dirty enclosure, but here is a pic. If you see any visual health concerns (other than his home) please let us know. Thanks.
Edit: Now that he's awake and moving around, I think his bath will need to wait. He woke up with a black beard and seems really scared. If we even walk up to his viv he pancakes and beards us.
Kevin and Melissa
Feeding - greens and veggies available and feed live feeders once daily
Bathing - couple 15 minutes, or longer, baths per week
Supplements - Calcium once a day (5 days), vitamins couple days a week
Our new beardie was being fed Romaine lettuce for greens (which we will be changing based on the feeding list at Beautiful Dragons website) and fed crix and/or superworms every other day. Also, was only misted. We will see if he will let us pick him up today (just brought him home last night) and if he will we'll see how he does in a bath. He does look a bit dehydrated so we want to bath him as soon as he'll let us. Would it hurt him to start giving feeders daily or do we need to increase that more slowly? I know if they were very under nourished it can be a bad thing to start feeding them lots of feeders too quickly so we wanted to make sure. He has a very dirty viv that we will be cleaning out ASAP as well. The enclosure is a poor setup so I don't imagine it was cleaned very often because it would be so involved. A quick 15-20 minute cleanup would never be possible with the enclosure setup. So...any advice on our new friend would be great! He's in the middle of a shed and still in his really dirty enclosure, but here is a pic. If you see any visual health concerns (other than his home) please let us know. Thanks.
Edit: Now that he's awake and moving around, I think his bath will need to wait. He woke up with a black beard and seems really scared. If we even walk up to his viv he pancakes and beards us.
Kevin and Melissa