Edwtampa":1urhmtrb said:i've got a tank that i'm not sure how many gallons it is.i do know it's two feet across the front,so two feet long.i measured because i wanted to see if it'd hold an adult beardie and when i realized he would be a little cramped,i decided to get my dad to build a new bigger enclosure,three foot and then some inches across.but in the tank i've got newspaper for substrate,a little shallow rock bowl from the petstore for water which i'm concidering taking out,a little wooden arch and a smooth rock i lay on it's flatside against the side of the glass so it won't fall,rock or move around.that's really it.i did put one of my well worn shirts in with the second beardie,and at the end i wanted him to have a toy so i put in one of those plastic easter eggs. for lighting i had just a..i guess a basking lamp bulb i got from the pet store when i had my first beardie so it's really old..but still seems to give out pretty good heat and was pretty bright.the bulb is kind of clear.
Edwtampa":vz9m4wd5 said:my first one Yamori lived maybe...two months?i can't remember,i had it back in middle school and i just graduated high school.i had Warlock for three weeks.yamori i KNOW died from impaction..i woke up and he was laying dead,some spittle kind of bubbles from his mouth mixed with sand.i did use sand as substrate then.warlock...i don't know i had him since he was two weeks old,and kept him three weeks.towards the end he was acting funny.very lethargic and wouldn't eat.came back to alertness in the bath but went to how he was before.then the day he died,i decided to try and get him some nutrients from the sun.it was around five or six oclock.i sat in the sun and after a minute,he began gaping his mouth open.i remember thinking about people online saying dragons do that when hot.then suddenly he rolled over and began...shaking and twitching.i think it was a seizure.i took him in the shade but he kept opening his mouth,kind of a gasping motion.i called the breeder i got him from and she said he may be impacted and to put him in warm water.that worked for a little while then suddenly i noticed his back toes...viberating.and then his tail.his head slipped off the edge of the tupperware lid i was using to hold the water for him,and i picked him up,i could feel his whole body kind of viberating.i set him down,scared he'd have another seizure then put him back in the water.the last bit i rememer before he died was his head twitching and tilting to the side.then he was dead.i fed him maybe three crickets three times a week...maybe more towards the end but still the same days and i'd cut the bigger one in sections and feed each section to him.gave him lettuce for his salad,he seemed to enjoy it and gulped it down as soon as he saw it.the temp in his tank was...around 80 something in the cool part,dunno about the hot part.
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