Pigeoncracker
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Hey!
Can't say I'm not incredibly nervous about caring for one of these, but she (the bearded dragon) seems incredibly sweet and just clung to my sweatshirt inside of my jacket the entire way home. Her name is Eowyn, and I believe the previous owner got her at the age of 1 and has kept her for two years, and now I'm taking up the mantle of caring for her.
Decided that I'd get off my lazy butt and make sure that I'm not going to be doing something really wrong or bad. I feel like I am, or maybe that's just the overwhelming sense of dread when I realized that wasn't comfortable with a lot of the information that I knew.
She's currently kept in a really long 20-gallon tank (Yes, I know this needs to be changed. Let me save up some money for this, first.) with a few bowls, a faux cactus, some broad-leafed plant, a basking (?) log and a shroud and light that I discovered didn't work when I attempted to turn it on, to my disappointment.
For a bedding, she had like a crushed walnut stuff that the owner has told me is perfectly fine and great and I should probably pick up some for replenishment purposes. It's like a fine grain sand. I dutifully picked up some after I had dropped my dragon off at home with my mother to dote upon her every movement. I later read that this stuff was very bad, apparently, and she's been living in this stuff for probably two years. I'm just confused.
We replaced the bulb that broke with a 100W basking light that seems to keep ambient temperatures of the log to around 95F and I'm sure the log is 100-110F. We also got another, smaller lamp to keep the rest of the tank warm. Works as expected.
Our house is freezing at night. Cups of water will freeze sometimes. We have no heating source that can sufficiently warm our house for extended periods of time without driving our heating bill into the thousands. We have a few wood burning cast iron furnaces, but we can't keep them going for long. My room has a more efficient heater that I can leave on and keep my room to around 65F. Turning all the lights off at night in the habitat, would this be an appropriate temperature?
A few more question. Sorry if this is long.
Foodstuffs. We have plenty of veggies all over the place, a surplus of kale, we picked up crickets from a local PetSmart and the owner gave us a little container of superworms and some funny smelling pink reptile food. For adding to the greens? The owner mentioned that she doesn't like to eat her greens, so I've been planning to drop a superworm or the beardie food into it to see if I could get her to eat it along with the bug. Sound about right?
Simple question. Best way to get water to her? Seems to me like the most practical is misting her greens or dripping water onto her head.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. I'm completely new to this; only just got her today!
Thanks,
Pigeoncrakcer
Can't say I'm not incredibly nervous about caring for one of these, but she (the bearded dragon) seems incredibly sweet and just clung to my sweatshirt inside of my jacket the entire way home. Her name is Eowyn, and I believe the previous owner got her at the age of 1 and has kept her for two years, and now I'm taking up the mantle of caring for her.
Decided that I'd get off my lazy butt and make sure that I'm not going to be doing something really wrong or bad. I feel like I am, or maybe that's just the overwhelming sense of dread when I realized that wasn't comfortable with a lot of the information that I knew.
She's currently kept in a really long 20-gallon tank (Yes, I know this needs to be changed. Let me save up some money for this, first.) with a few bowls, a faux cactus, some broad-leafed plant, a basking (?) log and a shroud and light that I discovered didn't work when I attempted to turn it on, to my disappointment.
For a bedding, she had like a crushed walnut stuff that the owner has told me is perfectly fine and great and I should probably pick up some for replenishment purposes. It's like a fine grain sand. I dutifully picked up some after I had dropped my dragon off at home with my mother to dote upon her every movement. I later read that this stuff was very bad, apparently, and she's been living in this stuff for probably two years. I'm just confused.
We replaced the bulb that broke with a 100W basking light that seems to keep ambient temperatures of the log to around 95F and I'm sure the log is 100-110F. We also got another, smaller lamp to keep the rest of the tank warm. Works as expected.
Our house is freezing at night. Cups of water will freeze sometimes. We have no heating source that can sufficiently warm our house for extended periods of time without driving our heating bill into the thousands. We have a few wood burning cast iron furnaces, but we can't keep them going for long. My room has a more efficient heater that I can leave on and keep my room to around 65F. Turning all the lights off at night in the habitat, would this be an appropriate temperature?
A few more question. Sorry if this is long.
Foodstuffs. We have plenty of veggies all over the place, a surplus of kale, we picked up crickets from a local PetSmart and the owner gave us a little container of superworms and some funny smelling pink reptile food. For adding to the greens? The owner mentioned that she doesn't like to eat her greens, so I've been planning to drop a superworm or the beardie food into it to see if I could get her to eat it along with the bug. Sound about right?
Simple question. Best way to get water to her? Seems to me like the most practical is misting her greens or dripping water onto her head.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. I'm completely new to this; only just got her today!
Thanks,
Pigeoncrakcer
