Hello all. My name is Sheila and today my family and I adopted our very first beardie...Carl. Carl is a 2 month old leatherback and is just beautiful. We're very excited and a bit nervous as this is our first reptile. This has been a long time coming (2 years) and want to make sure we get it right.
Have looked at many sites and have talked to quite a few people but feel a little overwhelmed with the amount of information and it being so different from site to site and person to person.
I read another poster's comments about being told to not feed your beardie when you first bring it home for a few days to give it time to de-stress as that's what we were told as well. I'm nervous with Carl being so young and worry about dehydration. I'm thinking we'll try feeding a Carl a few crickets in the morning and just go from there.
Then we were told to feed him once a day while all the sites say to feed baby beardies from as much as 2-4 times a day until up to 5 months...what is a mother to do?
Then what's all this about wrapping your beardies up in fleece blankets at night, am I supposed to do that?
How long can you keep them out of their tanks while holding and socializing with them before they get too cold?
Ah, so many questions this new beardie mom has!
Have looked at many sites and have talked to quite a few people but feel a little overwhelmed with the amount of information and it being so different from site to site and person to person.
I read another poster's comments about being told to not feed your beardie when you first bring it home for a few days to give it time to de-stress as that's what we were told as well. I'm nervous with Carl being so young and worry about dehydration. I'm thinking we'll try feeding a Carl a few crickets in the morning and just go from there.
Then we were told to feed him once a day while all the sites say to feed baby beardies from as much as 2-4 times a day until up to 5 months...what is a mother to do?
Then what's all this about wrapping your beardies up in fleece blankets at night, am I supposed to do that?
How long can you keep them out of their tanks while holding and socializing with them before they get too cold?
Ah, so many questions this new beardie mom has!