Reptar the Rescue

[sericinda]

Soooo, I rescued a beardie on Monday, a lovely boy named Reptar. He is SUPER sweet and quirky....I'm already in love and it's only day two.

His original owner had him in a 10 gallon tank, on blue sand, and a heat rock. Just a normal bulb for light. I have no idea how he survived this long without any serious damage. He is stained blue all over...I managed to help him out of some dried on shed so he has one normal looking leg now and I got a bunch of dried blue shed off around his eyes and mouth, but we have some bathing and work to do to get the rest off. His new home is a 30 gallon long tank until I can find a 75 for him....he's still young though so he's fine for a bit. He's in heaven compared to the 10 gallon he was in. He's not overly thrilled about eating his greens and veggies and fruits. I keep offering them to him and he will lick them, but otherwise ignores them. I will keep trying. He does like his crickets and I'm ordering some worms tomorrow. Any advice on getting him to eat his greens is appreciated.

His name is Reptar, not sure how old or what morph. Decided to keep the name as it suits him. I looked at a morph page and they all look alike to me, haha! I will measure and weigh him tomorrow. He is under a year though.

Here are some pictures!

 

[Grogshla]

first of all thank you for taking good care of this little fella.
He looks fantastic and has such a nice colour and patterns.
You can try dropping a few repti worms in his salad this will attract him as the salad will appear to be moving. Keep it up with the crickets though they are the best food in my eyes.
keep up the good work

 

[sericinda]

I'm happy to report he has decided that bath time is indeed, very nice and just hangs out serenely in the bathing tub...which is a lot better reaction than his first bath, where he freaked out a bit! He also has started eating his greens....he ignored them for days until I mixed collards and fresh basil leaves, now he gobbles them down. He also likes large crickets a lot better than small ones for some reason, and his repti-worms came today and he likes those a lot. So he is doing well!

Really liking this guy a lot...I feel very lucky to have gotten him

 

[HeatherSullivan]

I'm happy to report he has decided that bath time is indeed, very nice and just hangs out serenely in the bathing tub...which is a lot better reaction than his first bath, where he freaked out a bit! He also has started eating his greens....he ignored them for days until I mixed collards and fresh basil leaves, now he gobbles them down. He also likes large crickets a lot better than small ones for some reason, and his repti-worms came today and he likes those a lot. So he is doing well!

Really liking this guy a lot...I feel very lucky to have gotten him

Well he is lucky you adopted him. I adopted my beardie Brodie when he was a year as well. If you want to read his story I update it frequently too. I am glad Reptar is doing good. Thanks for keeping us posted. Alot of people may not say anything, but we are reading about him! WE LOVE UPDATES! And we never believe updates with out pics, so snap a few and lets "see" how he's doing!

 

[sericinda]

I'm leaving shortly to go pick up his new 55 gallon home...yay! I will post pics tomorrow.

 

[sericinda]

Update! Got Reptars new tank set up today....it's only a 55 as I cannot find a 40 breeder anywhere in my area...I live in a small city in North Dakota and the nearest Petco is 4 hours away and Petsmart is 2 hours, so I'll have to wait until I go to the cities to find a 40 breeder. But this is better than the 30 gallon I had, a bit more space. I take him out a lot too so he's ok for now.

I had him at my grooming shop intending to have him there as a shop pet, but I fell way too much in love and missed him when I wasn't at work, so he moved home today. Was tired of driving to work all the time when I didn't have to work to see him lol. I didn't expect to get so attached! He rode the whole way home snuggled up under my chin. I got some weird looks at stop lights.

Now he is sleeping under the covers while I browse the web. He's so freaking sweet. The guy I got him from claimed he was mean??? He's never once flared at me or made any move to bite or react. The worst he does is lick me lol

Sleepy cuddly dragon

new digs!

 

[sericinda]

Can someone tell me what morph Reptar is from the pics I posted in the first post? People keep asking me and I have no idea!! He has a lot of orange on his chin area and the spikes along his side are all orange. He has some purplish/black stripes on his back. Never mind the awful blue feet hahaha...hopefully he will shed the rest of that off soon and have pretty normal tan feet again.

here he is in his new leash

and sleepycuddling

In his hammock

 

[sericinda]

Oh here's a good picture of his orange