Hi there, lurker finally coming out to play

[drakenmom]

First my beardie:
He has lived with me only a few days, and is my 12 year olds Christmas present. Ok, he is nominally my son's present. :lol:
I bought him at a local pet store, he wasn't in prime living conditions but has a fantastic personality.

He was kept in a clean 10 gallon tank with calci-sand. They told me to feed him a dozen and a half crickets every other day and greens every day. He is missing his tail, but the stub is well healed.

Draken is 7 inches long, about 1.5 inches is tail. They think he is 4 months old.
His set up at my house is a 40 gallon tank with a zoomed 10.0 light. I have an infrared light and a flood light. The substrate is cage carpet. He is getting dusted crickets daily, as many as he will eat, and a varied greens dish(using the beautiful dragons list of foods)
He is getting a bath every day, and loves it.
Draken is going to have to wait a couple of weeks for a larger tank, I am building a mezzanine enclosure for him.
I finally decided to get the turkistan roaches next pay day and breed them for feeders. That decision was harder than I thought it would be! Who knew I would spend hours contemplating bugs?

My kids wanted to name him Drake, but that is my oldest son's name so we settled on Draken.

 

[Catalyst]

Welcome to the site It sounds like you're off to a great start with your little guy. Just a heads up, you dont' need the infared light. During the day dragons thrive in bright clear light, and at night they'd be disturbed by the red light (which they can see, contrary to what most pet stores will tell you). Hope you enjoy it here, feel free to ask any questions you have

 

[drakenmom]

Thank you, your tip just saved Draken another restless night.=)

 

[Catalyst]

No problem I had the same light when I first got my dragon so I'm just passing on the help that I got back then.

 

[Starghoti]

lol
Welcome to the forum
Or you could do like we do (gets a mite chilly in our house at night) we use the "black light" incandescent (read Very Dark Purple) bulbs for heat and put fleece blankies over our dragons so the light doesn't bother them, but they still stay warm. They love it. When they see me coming with blankies, they nestle down, and as soon as they are covered the put their heads down and sigh and go to sleep.
My sister gets a laugh every time she's here at lizard beddy-bye time, she teases that the blankets won't keep them warm because they are cold-blooded. LOL :roll:

Have fun with your new Ecto-Master!

signed,
another beardie-whipped mammal