Where to put the food

ScooterRenee2022

Hatchling Member
Does someone know where you should place the food in my terrarium? I have been placing it in at the end where the heating bulb is but the food does not stay edible. It becomes wilted and to me unedible. Can someone tell me where would be the best place to put it? I have his water at the other end under the UV bulb but the water gets, to me again, to cold. So I’m wondering where would be the best place to place them.
 

Chris.

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Beardie name(s)
Luis and Lilith
Very few people keep waterbowls in their tanks as most dragons won't touch them anyway.

As for the saladbowl, I keep it on the coolest spot possible but where they can still see it from their basking places. For my tanks that is about in the middle of the tank (but my tanks are huge, 210GAL).
 

ScooterRenee2022

Hatchling Member
Original Poster
Very few people keep waterbowls in their tanks as most dragons won't touch them anyway.

As for the saladbowl, I keep it on the coolest spot possible but where they can still see it from their basking places. For my tanks that is about in the middle of the tank (but my tanks are huge, 210GAL).
How do they get the water that they need everyda? I’m sorry I am asking so many questions. I got my beardie back in October and I know they lied about his age because he is 19 and a half inches and has only grown a half an inch in about the past maybe month and a half and has not shed in about a month. He has a personality. When he wants to do something he will do it. He likes being in the UV part of his tank more than anything. I just ordered the T5 10.0 because I had the one that comes with the tank but I don’t think that is good for him from what I have heard. So I am so confused with how to deal with him and I also dont know how to run all these posts because I do have so many concerns. Should I just post all of these question separatel? It would be a lot of questions.
 

KarrieRee

BD.org Sicko
Beardie name(s)
Hiccup he is 6 and Blaze is 5
How do they get the water that they need everyda? I’m sorry I am asking so many questions. I got my beardie back in October and I know they lied about his age because he is 19 and a half inches and has only grown a half an inch in about the past maybe month and a half and has not shed in about a month. He has a personality. When he wants to do something he will do it. He likes being in the UV part of his tank more than anything. I just ordered the T5 10.0 because I had the one that comes with the tank but I don’t think that is good for him from what I have heard. So I am so confused with how to deal with him and I also dont know how to run all these posts because I do have so many concerns. Should I just post all of these question separatel? It would be a lot of questions.
Salads should be rinsed before serving - you can offer water on their noses to see if they will lick - offer once a week or so - eye droppers are good - a bath if he is drinking from there - when you get the T 5 please post the screen on the tank will determine where it needs to go - it doesnt matter about questions ask them in one post so you dont have so many threads going
 

Chris.

Sub-Adult Member
Beardie name(s)
Luis and Lilith
Yes, they don't need water every day. Usually they should get most of their water from their food. You may have already realized that they don't pee. That is because they hang on to every drop of water they have.

19.5" sounds like he is approaching adulthood. Feel free to post some pictures of him ;)

You can ask everything at every time. One post or multiple doesn't matter, do what is more convienent to you.
Don't worry there are enough smart people on here, we'll help you figure things out :)
 

ScooterRenee2022

Hatchling Member
Original Poster
Do either of you know the Phoenix worm store. I went to their website to order Phoenix worms but they do not give you a number to contact them but on their website it said something about being supporting beardeddragon.org so I bought Phoenix worms from them and I am trying to email them because that is the only thing they allowed you to do.
 

ChileanTaco

Gray-bearded Member
Beardie name(s)
Taco
Very few people keep waterbowls in their tanks as most dragons won't touch them anyway.

As for the saladbowl, I keep it on the coolest spot possible but where they can still see it from their basking places. For my tanks that is about in the middle of the tank (but my tanks are huge, 210GAL).
Same for me (when I calculate the size (more used to working with the length, depth, height) I get 205 gallons). I keep the food on the coolest spot but exposed.
What also helps to keep the salad/ veggies crisp: I use a shallow, narrow dish (small jar) into which I put the leaves similar to a flower bouquet and can clamp them down. I don't cut them up (only did when he was a baby). My dragon rips off pieces on his own. I only cut up veggies that are not leafy greens, so e.g. bell pepper.
Despite my dragon has no problem with being seen eating, he rarely eats immediately when offered food. (Usually I put in his food very early in the morning before I leave, but even if I put in some during the day, he isn't eating it immediately. My Taco is not somebody who runs for the bowl, despite he is a good eater.)

I do not keep a water bowl for drinking. I mist the veggies and greens, and I also mist the edible live plants I keep in his enclosure. Sometimes I also drip some water on his face.
Most water they get just from the veggies and the insects. They're desert animals, so not developed to drink from puddles of water but rather drink the dew in the morning (which I simulate by misting the greens and sometimes dropping some water on my dragon), lose relatively small amounts of water (as reptiles they don't sweat and don't have a watery urine but the white part of their "poo" is the "urine" (urate, to be correct), that keeps the amount of water loss much lower than for a mammal and especially smaller than for a mammal that sweats like a human).


.... edit: just saw that Chris. also answered at the same time on where they get the water from and the low water loss. Totally agree!
 
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