JangoMom
Sub-Adult Member
Hey Everyone! My name is Tammy and I got my first beardie on Feb. 29th.. he was only a baby, i'm guessing a few weeks old? He was really small. The lady at the pet shop (Gittler's) said they normally don't sell them when their that small but she'd let me have him.. there was 3 all together but he seemed to be the more active one. We brought him home and placed him in his tank (bought a reptile terrarium from a different pet store earlier.. Petco). he seemed ok.. he ate a few small crickets right away and explored his new home before climbing onto his log..thing and relaxing. I couldn't figure out a good name for him so I was just gonna call him Draco, but then my son (7yrs) came home from school and seen him and said he looked like a Jango Fett.. so that was his name.. later my son said I was only allowed to call him Jango because he wasn't a Star Wars character..LOL. At first he would run when I'd get into his home to put his greens and water in or take out.. but within a few days he was fine with it.. and he even started letting me hold him for short periods of time, he must of liked it though because he would stand against the glass and look out, run back and forth wanting out after awhile. He's a good eater when it comes to crickets.. he eats his greens pretty good as well.. it differs from day to day.. I guess it depends on his mood and what he feels like eating... He doesn't care for baths wich I give him atleast once a week when I clean his terrarium out (I do keep an eye on him while he's in the bath). He loves looking out the window and really loves when it's warm out and I can open the windows up and he can feel the warm breeze and lay in the sun. I don't let him run around the house though.. I'm too afraid he'd get lost behind something but I do let him crawl on me. He's about 10 inches from nose to tail tip now..I'm guess about 2 or 3 months old? The lady at the pet store where we got him didn't know much about him, they didn't even know what kind he is, so i'm not sure..I'm guess probably a normal dragon? We have all the heat lamps..etc for him.. they did tell me not to put a heating rock in his tank because of them malfunctioning and possibly harming my dragon so we have a heating pad under his tank..a green reptile carpet in the bottom 2 digital therms..one on each side of the terrarium and a humidy gauge in the middle. Sorry this is so long.. Here are some pictures.. hope they work..
This is Jango when we first brought him home.. 2/29/12
getting ready for bed (the heating pad is under where he's laying) this is where he slept the first few nights..
wanting out a few days after we got him..
loves it in his "tree"..
loves looking out the window..
looking at the fishes..
his terrarium..
baskin' in the sun.. 4/4/12
lookin' out the window with my son..,
enjoying the warm sun.. I had the windows open..
Last one.. for now.. Jango fell asleep on his temp. wire 4/23/12
Sorry for so many.. wanted to catch ya'll up on Jango
This is Jango when we first brought him home.. 2/29/12
getting ready for bed (the heating pad is under where he's laying) this is where he slept the first few nights..
wanting out a few days after we got him..
loves it in his "tree"..
loves looking out the window..
looking at the fishes..
his terrarium..
baskin' in the sun.. 4/4/12
lookin' out the window with my son..,
enjoying the warm sun.. I had the windows open..
Last one.. for now.. Jango fell asleep on his temp. wire 4/23/12
Sorry for so many.. wanted to catch ya'll up on Jango