Meet Tikvah!

This is Tikvah - or Tiki for short. Tikvah is Hebrew for "hope", as in we hope she has an awesome life. She's a rescue dragon, around a year old - if that. She enjoys spending her days gazing out the window.



She also enjoys having her claws filed so she doesn't get stuck on Mommy and Daddy's clothes.





She'll also just sit on the sofa and watch Jurassic Park, wondering if she's somehow related to the T-Rex...

I had NO CLUE what to do with her, and how much knowledge goes into these little creatures. This is a truly amazing website!!!! I love it, and spend lots of time browsing the dragon topics!!!

 

[sheri85]

she's so pretty! (love her name, btw).

i found this site right after i got my baby, and it's been such a great resource. the community is great.

looking forward to seeing more pictures of Tikvah

 

[EmilyRussom]

Little known fact about Bearded Dragons - they do yoga.

 

[EmilyRussom]

She also enjoys my Husband's head.

 

[izz]

He looks like she will be very happy with you . Is she a leather back???. I hope to rescue beardies one day and breed with my citrus boy. The pic of her on your husband head is funny!!!

 

[EmilyRussom]

I have NO IDEA what she is. I was told she might be a year old. However, based upon her voracious appetite she may still be a juvenile and require more crickets - which is happening. She's a massive rescue - not loved or snuggled, and underfed. Now she's spoiled rotten.

How DOES one find out what kind of dragon they have?

 

[Toyguy]

It's hard to know what type, or genetic line, you might have. Being underfed, it's hard to guess age too but looking at her I would say she's less than a year. My Dash is just 13 months now, and he's about 22" long and 566 grams. Can you weigh and measure Tikvah?

How are you set up in terms of enclosure and lighting? That's key.

Are you dusting your crickets? I always did 6 days with Calcium and 1 day with Herptivite. How does she do with salad?

Glad to see she's with a loving home now - she'll come around quickly.

 

[EmilyRussom]

She has a heating infrared lamp on one side (75 watts) and then on the other is her UVB bulb which is a 10.0. I dust her crickets and sometimes her salads. She adores her salads, mostly when she's sitting on my lap - she's on the spoiled side now. She's about 15'' long. Don't have a scale here - she is small though, LoL...

I've never been worried about her eating habits - ever.

 

[herpgirl2510]

Looks like she is going to be very happy in her new home.

 

[EmilyRussom]

A good update. It seems the little girl was hungry - as she devoured around... 20-30 crickets in about 10 minutes. It still annoys the hell out of me to think she wasn't cared for well enough at ALL - however now, she's spoiled - I can't wait to post fat pictures of Tiki!

Thanks for past posts and advice - "give them all they want in about 10-15 minutes for crickets."

Then she watched cars and dogs go by on her blanket.

 

[Spiketheleucistic]

She looks like spike does and he's leucistic according to the lady at carolina designer dragons.

 

[EmilyRussom]

Ok, so Tiki came out to play, have a salad and some crickets. I saw the time and realized I should do my hair for work, so I put the little thing on my shoulder and snuggled her up as I took her back to her home.

She resisted.

She got to where I couldn't reach her, so I just sat on the sofa for a while.



Fifteen minutes later she's back home. Finally. Tiki: 1 -- Emily: 0

 

[sheri85]

lol that's so cute! Archer always wants out when he sees me getting ready for work.

 

[EmilyRussom]

Don't fire me, but I finally got around to getting Tiki a basking/spot lamp today. I kind of go paycheck to paycheck with her, unfortunately.

Well, she's gone crazy - in a good way.

I thought she was active and alert before - that's NOTHING compared to now. She was being finicky and wouldn't eat a lot of salad, however, now, after basking, she went bananas and devoured her turnip green/cucumber/squash salad.

She also had her first waxworms today - I know, I know - but... she's underweight. I also tricked her into drinking by dripping water all over them, hehehehe......

 

[herpgirl2510]

She has such a pretty face I am glad she is in a better home. Reptiles become much more active under the correct temps that is why they are more mellow at a pet store because their temps are usually off. I just use a house hold bulb or an indoor/outdoor halogen bulb for all my reptiles basking spots.