ChileanTaco
Sub-Adult Member
- Beardie name(s)
- Taco
Are there any small practical things & tools you use for caring for your dragon(s)?
I don't mean the mandatory things like thermometers, but the more optional things that are still really helpful.
I start with:
* eyedropper: for giving your dragon some water
* feeder tongs: if you don't want to hand-feed bugs directly from your hand
* long tongs, e.g. bamboo barbecue tongs: for hard to reach places in the enclosure (I like it a lot, "extra-long hand" for removing such as shed, salad dragged into a cave, escaped bug, dragging food bowl to the front to clean it out and pushing it back in... I use it almost every day)
* bamboo spoon: for hand-feeding food that's just too liquid/sticky for putting it on the hand; won't splinter like plastic if the dragon bites down on it, not dangerously hard to the mouth like metal; I got me one with an extra long handle to deliver the food right to my dragon's basking spot
* small colander/sieve for cleaning out bugs and worms: I have one that's from kid's sand toys and this works best (larger holes than most that are made for the kitchen)
I don't mean the mandatory things like thermometers, but the more optional things that are still really helpful.
I start with:
* eyedropper: for giving your dragon some water
* feeder tongs: if you don't want to hand-feed bugs directly from your hand
* long tongs, e.g. bamboo barbecue tongs: for hard to reach places in the enclosure (I like it a lot, "extra-long hand" for removing such as shed, salad dragged into a cave, escaped bug, dragging food bowl to the front to clean it out and pushing it back in... I use it almost every day)
* bamboo spoon: for hand-feeding food that's just too liquid/sticky for putting it on the hand; won't splinter like plastic if the dragon bites down on it, not dangerously hard to the mouth like metal; I got me one with an extra long handle to deliver the food right to my dragon's basking spot
* small colander/sieve for cleaning out bugs and worms: I have one that's from kid's sand toys and this works best (larger holes than most that are made for the kitchen)