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UPDATE: Page2- Grendel's Lair 9/12/13
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Part 1- Grendel's Story
My husband and I are the slaves to Yoshi and Aurora. Never in a million years would we have thought we would have 3 beardies at the same time. But we do
So as you can tell from the title, we have chosen the name Grendel. This name was chosen because of his size, but not because of his personality. He is a big dragon, but has such a sweet personality. Ok, well, unless you wake him up that is. lol So here is the story about this sweet beardie came into our lives.
On day, at the end of May, my husband was coming home from work and had to stop at the local pet store to get crickets. When he came home, he told me that the coming weekend, he wanted to show me a beardie that was there. So that Saturday, which was June 2nd, we had to stop in for more crickets and he showed me the beardie. My first reaction was that he was huge! The pet store owner said that they got him from a breeder in Florida. He was going through some major relocation stress because of flying. They had him in a 30g tank and he could barely move around. They said they tried feeding him some lettuce, crickets and mealworms. Which my husband and I promptly told them that the mealies weren't good for beardies. My husband decided to ask if he could hold him the beardie just sat calm on his shoulder and snuggled into him. It almost looks like he's telling my husband, "Please take me home."
So after that day, we went on with things. But one day we started talking about, "If he was here we would give him a good home." And discussed everything. June 7th rolled around and we decided to go visit this beardie. My husband asked the woman if there was some way we could make a deal to lower his price or get the cage with him, which basically we would have only saved a bout $20. So we went home and started trying to figure out how we could get the things for this beardie, and somehow the fates were on our side. So on June 9th, we went in and asked the lady if they could hold him until June 15th. They said that they normally don't put holds, but they would for us. They said it seems like we are really interested in this beardie. The next day, June 10th, was the day of the reptile expo which we were going to. We went there and ended up getting some good deals on the viv, dishes, heat light, dome, crickets and some feeders. We had the thermometers already. While we were at the reptile show, we decided that we could not wait until the 15th to get him. So on our way to the pet store we went. When we got there, to our shock his cage was empty! We panicked at first, but one of the women there told us that her dad had borrowed Grendel for a party and that he would be bringing him back. So after about half an hour someone brought Grendel back and we brought him home.
The only things that we didn't have for him was a cave and his Reptisun, which he only had a few days without either of those. His eating is slowly improving and now that he got his uvb, he's definitely more active. This past Thursday we gave him a bath and he actually drank from his bath water.
We don't know his exact age or his morph, just that he's male. He has as sweet calm personality, but does not like to be woken up.
Since Grendel's story was a bit long, I'm going to post his pics in the next post and then after that, please feel free to comment. We look forward sharing as Grendel's story progresses.
UPDATE: Page2- Grendel's Lair 9/12/13
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Part 1- Grendel's Story
My husband and I are the slaves to Yoshi and Aurora. Never in a million years would we have thought we would have 3 beardies at the same time. But we do
So as you can tell from the title, we have chosen the name Grendel. This name was chosen because of his size, but not because of his personality. He is a big dragon, but has such a sweet personality. Ok, well, unless you wake him up that is. lol So here is the story about this sweet beardie came into our lives. On day, at the end of May, my husband was coming home from work and had to stop at the local pet store to get crickets. When he came home, he told me that the coming weekend, he wanted to show me a beardie that was there. So that Saturday, which was June 2nd, we had to stop in for more crickets and he showed me the beardie. My first reaction was that he was huge! The pet store owner said that they got him from a breeder in Florida. He was going through some major relocation stress because of flying. They had him in a 30g tank and he could barely move around. They said they tried feeding him some lettuce, crickets and mealworms. Which my husband and I promptly told them that the mealies weren't good for beardies. My husband decided to ask if he could hold him the beardie just sat calm on his shoulder and snuggled into him. It almost looks like he's telling my husband, "Please take me home."
So after that day, we went on with things. But one day we started talking about, "If he was here we would give him a good home." And discussed everything. June 7th rolled around and we decided to go visit this beardie. My husband asked the woman if there was some way we could make a deal to lower his price or get the cage with him, which basically we would have only saved a bout $20. So we went home and started trying to figure out how we could get the things for this beardie, and somehow the fates were on our side. So on June 9th, we went in and asked the lady if they could hold him until June 15th. They said that they normally don't put holds, but they would for us. They said it seems like we are really interested in this beardie. The next day, June 10th, was the day of the reptile expo which we were going to. We went there and ended up getting some good deals on the viv, dishes, heat light, dome, crickets and some feeders. We had the thermometers already. While we were at the reptile show, we decided that we could not wait until the 15th to get him. So on our way to the pet store we went. When we got there, to our shock his cage was empty! We panicked at first, but one of the women there told us that her dad had borrowed Grendel for a party and that he would be bringing him back. So after about half an hour someone brought Grendel back and we brought him home.
The only things that we didn't have for him was a cave and his Reptisun, which he only had a few days without either of those. His eating is slowly improving and now that he got his uvb, he's definitely more active. This past Thursday we gave him a bath and he actually drank from his bath water.
We don't know his exact age or his morph, just that he's male. He has as sweet calm personality, but does not like to be woken up.
Since Grendel's story was a bit long, I'm going to post his pics in the next post and then after that, please feel free to comment. We look forward sharing as Grendel's story progresses.
