Throwback to baby Kai..one year ago

[Sue E.]

Kai as a baby...5 months old (Pics taken a year ago)

 

[xp29]

They are both cuties

 

[Sue E.]

Kai was so greenish as a baby but completely lost that color as he grew up.

 

[Rocky2022]

Time flies

 

[xp29]

Kai was so greenish as a baby but completely lost that color as he grew up.

My first beardie Puff looked greenish the day we got her also. She shed a few days later and it was gone.

 

[Sue E.]

That little boy with the little dragon is now a big boy with a big dragon

 

[ChileanTaco]

Great to see And love how they apparently bonded.
Here is a comparison photo from my Taco. Same branch

 

[GALAXY_dr4g0n111]

here's flame, 3 month and 8 months(he is 9 months now)

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[Sue E.]

Great to see And love how they apparently bonded.
Here is a comparison photo from my Taco. Same branch

He was so tiny in the first pic it took me a minute to find him! He has grown up very well!

 

[Sue E.]

here's flame, 3 month and 8 months(he is 9 months now) View attachment 99528 ) View attachment 99527

Hes just beautiful! And even more flaming as a bigger beardie!

 

[ChileanTaco]

@Sue E.
When I got him (photo was taken shortly after, I had to look it up but I think 2 weeks after), he was already 3 months old and a reasonable size, like a "typical" lizard (adult sand lizard or so).
He was the last from a group of lizards the pet store had, so older than most they sell. (I went often, and those little beardies looked fragile compared to how Taco was... those don't look sick, absolutely not, but just so tiny-tiny as often sold a month younger than Taco was when I got him. Seeing the very small ones I always think "a pancake like a coin".)
That branch, however, is quite large and thick and I had already chosen it according to an adult dragon's size. Makes him look even smaller
Photo from when I got him, just minutes after opening the box. He stayed like this for hours. (Analog thermometer visible in the photo was just used as a second one, and gone soon as he ripped it off multiple times and then I just removed it. I always used a digital thermometer and put this in in addition as it was a leftover. I mention this to emphasize to not rely on an analog one like that.)

 

[Sue E.]

@Sue E.
When I got him (photo was taken shortly after, I had to look it up but I think 2 weeks after), he was already 3 months old and a reasonable size, like a "typical" lizard (adult sand lizard or so).
He was the last from a group of lizards the pet store had, so older than most they sell. (I went often, and those little beardies looked fragile compared to how Taco was... those don't look sick, absolutely not, but just so tiny-tiny as often sold a month younger than Taco was when I got him. Seeing the very small ones I always think "a pancake like a coin".)
That branch, however, is quite large and thick and I had already chosen it according to an adult dragon's size. Makes him look even smaller
Photo from when I got him, just minutes after opening the box. He stayed like this for hours. (Analog thermometer visible in the photo was just used as a second one, and gone soon as he ripped it off multiple times and then I just removed it. I always used a digital thermometer and put this in in addition as it was a leftover. I mention this to emphasize to not rely on an analog one like that.)

I have a digital thermometer/hygrometer on the cool side because the probe is flat and large and not attractive. I have 2 digital probes and 2 ir guns but on the warm side I have a stick on digital thermometer that stays in place to give me a general idea, and I use my digital probes and ir guns but do not leave them in the tank. I know I could, but I saw too many horror stories online of beardues who swallowed the probes and had to have them extracted by a vet. I just didnt want to take that chance. I know I am an overreactor, but it makes me feel better to stand there and check when I need to check temps and then leave them outside the enclosure.

 

[Sue E.]

@Sue E.
When I got him (photo was taken shortly after, I had to look it up but I think 2 weeks after), he was already 3 months old and a reasonable size, like a "typical" lizard (adult sand lizard or so).
He was the last from a group of lizards the pet store had, so older than most they sell. (I went often, and those little beardies looked fragile compared to how Taco was... those don't look sick, absolutely not, but just so tiny-tiny as often sold a month younger than Taco was when I got him. Seeing the very he ligmall ones I always think "a pancake like a coin".)
That branch, however, is quite large and thick and I had already chosen it according to an adult dragon's size. Makes him look even smaller
Photo from when I got him, just minutes after opening the box. He stayed like this for hours. (Analog thermometer visible in the photo was just used as a second one, and gone soon as he ripped it off multiple times and then I just removed it. I always used a digital thermometer and put this in in addition as it was a leftover. I mention this to emphasize to not rely on an analog one like that.)

He does look bigger in the box than he does on the log.

 

[ChileanTaco]

I have a digital thermometer/hygrometer on the cool side because the probe is flat and large and not attractive. I have 2 digital probes and 2 ir guns but on the warm side I have a stick on digital thermometer that stays in place to give me a general idea, and I use my digital probes and ir guns but do not leave them in the tank. I know I could, but I saw too many horror stories online of beardues who swallowed the probes and had to have them extracted by a vet. I just didnt want to take that chance. I know I am an overreactor, but it makes me feel better to stand there and check when I need to check temps and then leave them outside the enclosure.

I thought about the stick-on analog as a "general idea", but he removed it (and then dragged it around like wanting to fight an enemy) - so I removed it
Also with the digital one, it's not always in - I do it just like you describe it in the last sentence of your posting: I put it in if I want to check, and remove it afterwards.
With Taco, I'm absolutely sure he won't eat such, but I'm also pretty sure he would destroy a permanent thermometer regardless what it is.
Fun fact: All pets I had so far removed, destroyed... thermometers. Those that are social even did so working together.

He does look bigger in the box than he does on the log.

Yes, that's the size of the branch We got quite a laugh from some people when be bought that big branch - in the aquarium store I bought it, and then when after we picked it up (not in a car, but that thing was in a "granny-style" shopping cart so pretty visible) we went grocery shopping with that thing as the aquarium store was just on the way to the market What is this for? For our new pet (described it as "larger lizard similar to iguana" for short; described it correctly as "pogona (vitticeps)" in the aquarium store where they knew what that is (and in pet stores, animals here normally are known by their scientific name) but wondered that somebody keeps such an animal at home).
Reaction at the market? Guy at the market stall imitates iguana... (head bobbing, hand for head/back spikes)