Meet my little Floki

[AlexandriaNC]

I have already posted some questions on here, but I realized I never properly introduced us.
My name is Alex and this is my little guy (hopefully) Floki

We're still working on bonding

but he is adorable and I love him so much already.

Anyways, I love this site and it's great to have a community


Nice to meet you all

 

[Rampagingraptor]

Already helped you on a few things, but welcome anyways!
Love how your beardie sleeps.

 

[MaFt]

Re your 2nd photo. It looks like you're in a bathtub - is this a common way to 'bond' with a beardie? Would you recommend it?

MaFt

 

[AlexandriaNC]

I read on here that its a good way to let your beardie run around on you without the fear of him getting lost in your house.
My guy is skittish so it helped me

 

[MaFt]

Might give that a try then - she's a little skittish too although I feat that she'll run up my shoulder and hop out the tub!!

 

[AlexandriaNC]

I worried about that too haha but Floki didn't. He stayed on my legs or tried to run up the sides of the tub.

Yeah my guy is pretty skittish.
and a bit aggressive, He hisses and gapes and puffs at me when i try to pick him up.

Hopefully it gets better
Good luck with yours

 

[MaFt]

Floki looks to be very similar to Gillette in colour/pattern (albeit without the patterned belly)

Thankfully Gillette isn't hissing or puffing up.

 

[AlexandriaNC]

Aw they are similar.
Yeah mine is a little jerk
but I love him.
I have worms coming in the mail, so i think i'm only going to give those when I'm handling so he'll start to associate me with treats haha.
You could try that too

 

[MaFt]

What kind of worms? My local reptile place (where I got her from) advised against mealworms until they're much older as they can't really chew through the skin/shell. So I'm just using crickets at the moment ("3rd stage" or "thirds" they're called in the UK, smaller ones - not sure if that's an international term to describe insect size).

MaFt

 

[AlexandriaNC]

Yeah, mealworms are real bad.
I ordered pheonix worms or black soldier larvae.
Those can be used as a stable.

 

[AlexandriaNC]

I feed the small crickets too and small dubia roaches which are a lot easier than crickets and he seems to like them more.