CamilleAndLiz
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Hi everyone. I never thought I would own a reptile, I had never even seen a bearded dragon until I recently rescued two bearded dragons. A little over three years ago a friend of mine purchased two baby bearded dragons for his children, they played with them for a few weeks and then they pretty much sat neglected in a basement for the next three years. Eventually the basement flooded and became unfinished essentially ending their contact with humans altogether except when the wife felt inclined to throw some of the store bought BD veggie supplement in the tank, the husband threw about 20 crickets in about once a month, the lights were kept on a timer. Then one day he brought me in the basement on an unrelated issue and I asked about the dragons. He explained the situation and I insisted on bringing them home and giving them a better home, he agreed. I brought them home, cleaned the tank (it was filthy and stunk like ammonia) changed the substrate and reset up the tank. The next day I separated them and fed them about 35 crickets each which they ate quickly with no problem, I continue to feed them some parsley and diced apples and the more research I do the more balanced their diet will get. My wife named them, they are two females, Camille and Liz. I received Liz with 3 feet missing with the one still there very disfigured with only two digits remaining . Additionally the last two inches of her tail are gone, according to the research I’ve done this is from shedding problems. She is now my special needs dragon, very friendly and loves human contact. She loves to take warm baths, I found this out when I was cleaning the cage and I put them on the counter and she jumped in the sink and seemed to love the water, playing, running through the running water, and putting her leg stumps under the warm running faucet, it must make them feel better. Camille doesn’t like the water as much and instead wraps her self around the faucet and enjoys the warmth that way. They now live in my office and pretty much have the run of it as much as they want. Their favorite activity though presently is laying on a towel on the window sill of the opened screened window of my office under my desk staring at the sunshine, trees and flying insects while enjoying the warm breeze. As the sun goes down they drift off to sleep. I feel bad about going in the office every night around 2am and putting them back in the tank but worry about their safety should they wake up and start to wander around. Anyway, I joined this site because I will need as much help as possible learning about them so I can give them a healthy and happy life. Thanks for any input. CamilleAndLiz
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