Awwwww what a sweetie, I just love babies. You'll have to keep us all updated on length & weight once he's comfy being in his new home and starts to grow. Our babies loved the spruce plastic bushes that you can get at a pet shop. They're not expensive and they have little suckers to hold them up on the glass. We always had a bush sideways so it was easy to crawl up. Issy used it to watch for enemies, well you never know right? It's instinctive for babies to want to be up high and to have something to hide behind. Babies need to be warmer than adults, so 105F-110F on the basking spot would be best temps for digesting. Don't forget that babies eat tons & tons of pinhead crickets, you need to feed the crickets-it's called gut-loading, so your beardie gets enough protein. I used to buy collard greens or bok choy & butternut squash. I used a small food processor to mince the squash, then cut the greens into little squares & put that into the cool side of the tank in a lid of some sort. Our babies loved it. I also added calcium daily & once a week multivitamins. To have a healthy dragon, you have to have a healthy baby. You'll need to make sure he/she can be fed 3x/day, as many little crickets as he can eat in 10-15 min. Then bask at least 2 hours after each feeding so the food gest properly digested. You'll notice that your baby will be on & off the basking spot all day. We used newspaper when they were little as a substrate, 'cause it was easy to get and they could run across it without getting their little nails stuck. Easy to clean the poops, too.
How old is your little one? I'll be waiting for more pics
. I've enclosed a pic of Issy in the spruce bush:
There's always someone on the forum to give any advice that you may need. The care sheets on this site are really well done and there's a great site
www.beautifuldragons.com on which there is a great nutrition list. There's also a store. The lady who runs the rescue that the store is connected to is a wonderful person & has some great info on her website. We have 4 dragons and we're fostering 2 more. We've had Sweetie for 4 years, since she was 4 mo old. The others we adopted or rescued. Just so you'd have a background on us.
Welcome
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Deb
