LONG Time Away...Reintroducing myself

[ajsnow6234]

As you may or may not see by my post history, I was at one time very active here. That was almost 7 years ago now. From about 2006-2009 I had three dragons and fell in love with the reptile and hobby. When I lived in New Mexico it was an easy hobby to maintain. When taking a job in the Washington D.C. area, we very much had to downsize. I had to get rid of my fishtanks, my snakes and unfortunately my bearded dragon. Strangely enough, at the time it wasn't TOO difficult because the beardie I had was unusually mean and aggressive.

In any case, I still love them...still stare at the little babies every time I am in Petsmart, etc. My wife has been reorganizing a section in our home office to make room for "another desk" for our son to start homeschooling. Last night she dropped a bomb on me and said..."This is the spot you can put your enclosure"... "what enclosure"?

"Your new bearded dragon enclosure"

AHHHHH!!!! I freaked out a little bit. She has been struggling with what to get me for Christmas and decided that this would be the perfect gift...and in December I can pick out my beardie.

Sorry for the long story, I am just so happy to be back , when I was new to the hobby I learned so much here about how to perfectly care for my dragon. Looking forward to building a big new enclosure for him/her, but starting off with a 20L. The one really big advantage to living in an area like D.C. is the availability of good produce. When I was in New Mexico I could never find a good variety of tasty greens like bok choy or chard.

 

[Terry15]

I was on Craigslist, Maryland, some custom cages for 40$ and lights. http://baltimore.craigslist.org/for/5273731941.html

Also Petsmart has the 38x18x18 Exoterra on sale for 50% off on Black Friday, which the normal price is 219$, it's on sale now for 186. So it should be 110$ on Friday.

 

[ajsnow6234]

Thanks for that link, those are a great deal at $40.

I think those EXO-Terras are a great deal and they look nice. I will want something a bit bigger than 36x18x18 when the beardie is full grown, but that's a nice starter tank.

 

[Terry15]

The Exo terra is great with the doors on the front, so much easier.

 

[Terry15]

 

[ajsnow6234]

Yep...I used to have a smaller one for a leopard gecko. Pretty sure that's the way I'm going to go. I do like and will probably use an MVB bulb, so i'll just need to get a nice fixture for that.

 

[TeddyLC]

Awwwwww, that's so awesome of your wife! Great partnership! I'm so happy for you!