yay!

[nixlibs]

I'm so excited I just had to share with everyone!! My beardie Frankenstein learned how to drink water by himself. My boyfriend and I have been trying to teach our beardie for so long and we finally got him to use the water dish all by himself. It took a while but all that work has paid off. :mrgreen:

 

[Phoenix17June2009]

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dannye92]

How!!! mine kinda every so often sticks his front legs into the dish and i assume he absorbs it that way?

 

[pimmsoclock87]

How!!! mine kinda every so often sticks his front legs into the dish and i assume he absorbs it that way?

Only through drinking and their vent i think. Maybe he was cooling down, or wanted to wash his feet :roll:

 

[Lunatic768]

howd you do it?

 

[nixlibs]

ha I know it is awesome!! ok well it took a long time and I worked with him multiple times a week but what I did was got a small shallow dish, I filled the water up all the way so it came to about mid arm on him. After he had his dish ready I started out by putting a few mealworms in the water so they would float and he would go after them. As he would go after them he would scoop up water in his mouth too. He figured this trick out it was funny but anyway it seemed to help cause he became curious of the water dish. Then I would place him near his water dish and use a dropper to drip water on his nose then drip it in his water dish. I would also swirl the water around to make movement. With time it showed that all these things made him more curious about the dish and then he just started to drink and dunk his head in and yea thats it.

I am sure if you do all that it will work, cause my beardie used to HATE anything with water. Baths he would go nuts and want out and when I would drop water on his nose he would go nuts too, but now he loves it. If my beardie can befriend his water then believe me so can yours ha. It is soooo much easier now that he drink on his own and now as much as he wants. I really recommend it if your beardie doesn't drink on his own yet to try and teach them. I'm sure there are other ways too but this is the only way I know and it worked for me.

All the best for anyone who's going to try it out

 

[theclub83]

I cant get my walter to drink from a dish, bath or anything. now i shred a yellow squash up, add water and its seems to hold alot of moisture in. seems to work well.

 

[lacy_black]

I never did the whole bowl thing, didn't see the point since they get baths and moisture from their food. Plus a bowl adds humidity to the cage which isn't good generally.