dolphinsilversea01
Juvie Member
I originally found this forum when I adopted Spike almost a year ago (wow time flies!). I instantly fell in love, and couldn't wait until my family grew with bearded dragons. Well, I recently adopted 2 more from someone I work with who could no longer care for them herself.
I will show some pics of them, explaining a bit with each pic, and then I will give a bit more of their history and info - please read this as I know that some initial feelings may be disturbed.
This is Deisel who is thought to be male. I haven't checked the sexes yet - every time I have them out I get too involved in "playing" with them and forget to check :lol:
When he came into my work he was quite small, alot smaller than the other ones he was shipped with. A fellow associate and I noticed that he had alot of trouble using his back legs, so we would be sure he got good meals with calcium powder and would message his legs just about every day. After a while my fellow associate could no longer take it and decided to take him home. As you can see he has grown alot, and although he doesn't have complete use of his back legs he does use them for what he is able to.
This one is believed to be female. I haven't decided on a name for her yet... just can't make up my mind.
Here she is smiling with glee that it is meal time
. I do not know for sure when the associate got this one, but know it was shortly after Deisel.
Now, my being a member here I would daily tell this associate about loose substrates, mealworms, and housing them together, along with all the other care taking info I would learn on here. Unfortunately she didn't listen to me.
About a month ago this associate was no longer able to keep the beardies and gave them to another associate. This of course kind of upset me as she knows my love for beardies, and knew I would take exceptional care of them. I figured it just wasn't ment to be and continued educating the new owner on their proper care.
About a week ago the second associate came to me and stated that she now would no longer be able to take care of them and wondered if I would take them. I instantly called my honey up and in a way that made it sound like I was asking, but was really telling him that we were pround owners of two new beardies. When she brought them to work for me to take them, I couldn't wait to get them home and fix all the "no-no's" that was going on inside their viv.
First, both beardies are in a 20g long. I had previously posted about making fixtures into a giant habitat for Spike, but am now working on two habitats so these beardies can be housed seperately and with proper space. Second, the beardies were on about 2 to 3 inches of sand :shock: :x . This instantly made me cringe as I noticed it was stuck to them and everything else throughout the tank. Third, there were tons of mealworms crawling all over the place
. Considering I was at work and on the clock I couldn't make all the changes I wanted to, so I just took a deep breathe and reminded myself that these beardies would soon have a wonderful home.
They are still both in the 20, as I am working on their new habitats, so they will each have a ginormous home with all the proper fixings.
I will show some pics of them, explaining a bit with each pic, and then I will give a bit more of their history and info - please read this as I know that some initial feelings may be disturbed.
This is Deisel who is thought to be male. I haven't checked the sexes yet - every time I have them out I get too involved in "playing" with them and forget to check :lol:
When he came into my work he was quite small, alot smaller than the other ones he was shipped with. A fellow associate and I noticed that he had alot of trouble using his back legs, so we would be sure he got good meals with calcium powder and would message his legs just about every day. After a while my fellow associate could no longer take it and decided to take him home. As you can see he has grown alot, and although he doesn't have complete use of his back legs he does use them for what he is able to.
This one is believed to be female. I haven't decided on a name for her yet... just can't make up my mind.
Here she is smiling with glee that it is meal time
. I do not know for sure when the associate got this one, but know it was shortly after Deisel.Now, my being a member here I would daily tell this associate about loose substrates, mealworms, and housing them together, along with all the other care taking info I would learn on here. Unfortunately she didn't listen to me.
About a month ago this associate was no longer able to keep the beardies and gave them to another associate. This of course kind of upset me as she knows my love for beardies, and knew I would take exceptional care of them. I figured it just wasn't ment to be and continued educating the new owner on their proper care.
About a week ago the second associate came to me and stated that she now would no longer be able to take care of them and wondered if I would take them. I instantly called my honey up and in a way that made it sound like I was asking, but was really telling him that we were pround owners of two new beardies. When she brought them to work for me to take them, I couldn't wait to get them home and fix all the "no-no's" that was going on inside their viv.
First, both beardies are in a 20g long. I had previously posted about making fixtures into a giant habitat for Spike, but am now working on two habitats so these beardies can be housed seperately and with proper space. Second, the beardies were on about 2 to 3 inches of sand :shock: :x . This instantly made me cringe as I noticed it was stuck to them and everything else throughout the tank. Third, there were tons of mealworms crawling all over the place
. Considering I was at work and on the clock I couldn't make all the changes I wanted to, so I just took a deep breathe and reminded myself that these beardies would soon have a wonderful home. They are still both in the 20, as I am working on their new habitats, so they will each have a ginormous home with all the proper fixings.
