drgnfly2265
Sub-Adult Member
doodlelou":2335xdhr said:Thanks everyone for your replies.
This will be my first beardie and I honestly would like to get one that is atleast a few months old rather than only 6 weeks old. The ones they have at Petsmart are sooooo tiny! I have handled these little ones a few times when visiting the store and they seem fine with this, just sitting in my hand looking around. These little guys were already eating greens and vegetables, it was feeding time when I was there so they seemed to be well taken care of.
Dana
I would suggest getting a beardie that is a few months old. I got my first beardie when she was 4 months old (from a breeder). The guy had her already really comfortable with being handled.
The good thing about getting a beardie from a breeder was that any questions that I had specifically about her past he was able to answer for me and you wont be able to get that from a pet store.
Also, the pet store might sound like they know what they are doing, but I have caught them a couple of times giving out the wrong information and with different types of animals. Like I heard a employee at Petco was trying to sell a sulcata to a family. I was listening in because I was being curious about what info he was going to give them ( I have a 3 year old sulcata ). When the mother asked "how big do they get?", the employee said not that big! Well, the employee said that he had to run to the back real fast and then he would return with a little box so they could take it home. When he left I told the family how big that the sulcata will really get. I showed them a picture on my phone of how big my 3 year old is as proof. After they seen that they said they only have room for whatever can fit in a 20 gal. fish tank, plus they said they lived in an apartment. So they ended up leaving.