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Concerning Bearded Dragon Behavior
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[QUOTE="xp29, post: 2044983, member: 114539"] Baths are insanely dangerous for beardies. If you do a soak the water should not be deep enough for them to get their upper lip into it. I've been keeping beardies for a decade, in January I lost my 4 year old boy Zen because he aspirated in a soak. I was standing right there and it still happened. It only take a second or less. As for swimming, beardies use the same muscle group to walk and to breathe, they can't do both at once, so it goes without saying if they are swimming they can't breathe at the same time either. All the soaks in the world will not hydrate a beardie unless they actually drink the water. They do not absorb it through their skin or vent. The only reason to bathe a beardie is if they are dirty i.e. got poop on themselves. It's much safer to hold them and rinse them under the faucet. If you are going to do soaks, or let them swim I suggest you learn how to do cpr on them. (I'm not being a smart ass, I'm being serious. If they aspirate you have to get them nose down and drain the water, they have a simple respotory system and can't expel the water the way we can. You may have to help them breath also, which is dangerous as hell because you can explode their lungs.) Best to just not put them in water in the first place [/QUOTE]
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