clipping nails?

[Kasinda]

Deja nails are starting to become sharp. Please explain to me what I should use. And is there a trick to clipping the nails? How far do I cut down. Is there a certain nail clipper that I use?

 

[RioReptiles]

I use regular nail clippers and only take the pointy end off. Or I wait until they have been playing outside in the garden and get dirty nails, you can see where the dirty part is and safe to cut it off. It isn't much, thats why I usually stick to the little pointy part.

 

[Kasinda]

Thank you I will try that.

 

[chillinspike]

Ive herd that the best way to keep them short is by keeping a rock in their enclosure, when they crawl and it and such it trims them a bit, thats just what ive herd

 

[jacqui778]

Hi,

Yes, you can clip their nails, but only the black part. The clear portion of the nail will bleed and is hard to stop if you cut it. Regular human nail clippers should work fine.

Also, you can replace their substrate with ceramic tile. This way, it will naturally file down the beardie's claws. As mentioned above, a rough basking rock would do the trick as well.

Believe me, I share your pain! Not nice looking like you own a feral cat, right?

-- Jacqui

 

[FoodMonster]

My juvenile dragons are needing a manicure too. They keep entangling themselves on anything cloth lately. They have 2 limestone rocks but I don't think basking is really wearing on their nails much. I used to have them on clay tile when they were little but they are on screened play sand now and they like sand much better for running around and digging (I like sand better too).

It seems like time to give them a clip but their little toes seem mighty tiny and numerous. Delrith is about a foot long and Reyna is a little longer. They have clear nails with a thin stripe all the way to the end and clear all the way to the end and I am not sure what to cut. My experience is with big dogs. I feel like I need a microscope.

 

[threecupsofcoffee]

you'll prob laugh but i've taken to filing spyro's nails it does just take the edge of the sharpness. My new rescue homer has extremely curly nails and need doing badly but i'm thinking the same technique will help him. Julie