QueenOwlephant
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Hi everyone! We are finally here. I spent a long time lerking and researching, probably about 2 years now. About 3 months ago. I finally decided to go for it. So I started getting all the items for a new beardie little by little when they were on sale or by pricematching. And Now he is here!
He is currently 9inches long i dont know how much he weighs. He has a smooth back which I'm assuming is a leatherback trait. And also clear nails but colored eyes.he is mostly yellow and some orange and green.
I picked him up at the local Pet smart by my job in culver city, California. I'm very fortunate that they take awesome care of their pets. The store associate had a beardie of her own for 3 years with all the right set up. It was late the night we left, the car ride home was bumpy and long because of La traffic but we got home and he went straight to sleep.
By the way here is his favorite sleeping spots
This week has been hard! I try not to handle him too much only when I had to put him in a bath cause he was having some yellow urate and would not drink water ?. He watches me closely and one day I had to step out of the room so he could eat lmao.
He is slowly getting better. I'm able to hand feed a lil but I mostly feed him with tongs for the first 20 Dubia roaches and then I put the remaining 20 in his feeding dish and let him go at it.
YES he is averaging about 40 to 50 Dubias a day. And if my arm didn't get tired I'm sure he'd eat more.
I ordered my feeders from rainbowmealworms. They are a good 15 to 20 min drive from me so it was easy to pick them up.
He is on his sleep routine. Light on at 830am and off at 830pm. I notice he actually goes to his "bed" (on top of the vines) about an hour before the light goes off.
I hope now that the first week if over. I can start working on taming him this week. I might even start a taming diary lol
Here are pics of his tank.
He is in a 40 gallon Breeder Zilla tank
A reptisun 18" 10.0 uvb bulb in a zilla slim line fixture that's mounted i inside the tank with command hooks
A 100 watt dimmable flood light for his basking bulb
In a flukers dimmable fixture
Using the large eco terra light bracket
Two zoo med digital thermometers
Recently added a digital hydrometer to the tank and got a bigger water dish that he could potentially sit in.
I love him already and can t wait to spend the rest of his life spoiling him. Also his name is either Mango or Ragnarok. I haven't decide hahah.
He is currently 9inches long i dont know how much he weighs. He has a smooth back which I'm assuming is a leatherback trait. And also clear nails but colored eyes.he is mostly yellow and some orange and green.
I picked him up at the local Pet smart by my job in culver city, California. I'm very fortunate that they take awesome care of their pets. The store associate had a beardie of her own for 3 years with all the right set up. It was late the night we left, the car ride home was bumpy and long because of La traffic but we got home and he went straight to sleep.
By the way here is his favorite sleeping spots
This week has been hard! I try not to handle him too much only when I had to put him in a bath cause he was having some yellow urate and would not drink water ?. He watches me closely and one day I had to step out of the room so he could eat lmao.
He is slowly getting better. I'm able to hand feed a lil but I mostly feed him with tongs for the first 20 Dubia roaches and then I put the remaining 20 in his feeding dish and let him go at it.
YES he is averaging about 40 to 50 Dubias a day. And if my arm didn't get tired I'm sure he'd eat more.
I ordered my feeders from rainbowmealworms. They are a good 15 to 20 min drive from me so it was easy to pick them up.
He is on his sleep routine. Light on at 830am and off at 830pm. I notice he actually goes to his "bed" (on top of the vines) about an hour before the light goes off.
I hope now that the first week if over. I can start working on taming him this week. I might even start a taming diary lol
Here are pics of his tank.
A reptisun 18" 10.0 uvb bulb in a zilla slim line fixture that's mounted i inside the tank with command hooks
A 100 watt dimmable flood light for his basking bulb
In a flukers dimmable fixture
Using the large eco terra light bracket
Two zoo med digital thermometers
Recently added a digital hydrometer to the tank and got a bigger water dish that he could potentially sit in.
I love him already and can t wait to spend the rest of his life spoiling him. Also his name is either Mango or Ragnarok. I haven't decide hahah.
