I have a beardie named Liz and he is around 18 inches and 1 year 3 months old. Lately he has been running around his heat side of the tank and has been pushing the substrate to the other side and clawing at the tank. He has never really done it before, so I don’t really know what to do. Please help!
And BTW, loose substrate is not all the extreme health risk that it is made out to be. The majority of my dragons have lived on sand or sand/soil substrate with no problems. The stories that get passed around are old + extreme cases , very few and the same old pictures . The culprit is usually calcium sand which many reptiles actually eat when they are lacking calcium [ and it may taste good ] But plain sand + topsoil are O.K. as substrates. If your dragon loves to dig, that's because it's a natural instinct and if your dragon is a female she will need a laybox with sand + soil for the rest of her life as long as she produces eggs.