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Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hi all!
We have a new juvenile Beardie.
Her name is Sophie. We are in love with her!
She was sort of dropped off with us. However, it is wonderful this happened because I've always wanted a Bearded Dragon. And she is precious! Plus, we don't just take care of our animals, we spoil them. So, I think I've read a million things about Beardies.
Anyhow, we have questions.
For the basking area, there are so many different people who give different temperature ranges. Is 95 to 105 good? Or 100 - ?? or ??
As you can see, she has a small tank. It's the tank we were given. We have her out of the tank all of the time though. We got a giant Sophie-proof playpen for her. We also put her in the window to look outside and we love giving her her baths.
In her cage, we put up construction paper for now. When we move her, we already have a nice background picked out to be custom-made.
We have a friend with an older unused aquarium. We think it is 75 gallons (we will be getting her a giant cage eventually. We can't afford the 120 gallon right now.).
How would we disinfect it to make it completely clean? We assume bleach of course. However, could there be little microbes, parasites, etc. like along the bottom? Or in the corners and going up the sides where the glass meets? We are nervous that we wouldn't be able to get it clean enough in order to make it pristine and safe.
We don't even let her in our bath because we are too paranoid that she could come in contact with chemicals. She has her own little bath. We're getting a bigger one soon. She loves the one we do have right now.
We only feed her live Dubia roaches, super worms, and fresh veggies & fruit, All of it with calcium powder and of of all protein is gut loaded. We hope this is good. Someone told me crickets can have parasites and can bite a Beardie if we miss them in her tank.
Also, we are getting a humidity gauge. We live in the DC area so it is going to get very, very humid. Right now we are staying at a friend's house that gets a little humid in the house in the summer. Trying to look it up how to keep the humidity down for her.
We're also looking into keeping our own Dubia and super worm colonies.
We have even more questions of course.
Anyhoo...any help would be greatly appreciated. And any suggestions? We'll take all of it. We love our Sophie!
We have a new juvenile Beardie.
Her name is Sophie. We are in love with her!
She was sort of dropped off with us. However, it is wonderful this happened because I've always wanted a Bearded Dragon. And she is precious! Plus, we don't just take care of our animals, we spoil them. So, I think I've read a million things about Beardies.
Anyhow, we have questions.
For the basking area, there are so many different people who give different temperature ranges. Is 95 to 105 good? Or 100 - ?? or ??
As you can see, she has a small tank. It's the tank we were given. We have her out of the tank all of the time though. We got a giant Sophie-proof playpen for her. We also put her in the window to look outside and we love giving her her baths.
In her cage, we put up construction paper for now. When we move her, we already have a nice background picked out to be custom-made.
We have a friend with an older unused aquarium. We think it is 75 gallons (we will be getting her a giant cage eventually. We can't afford the 120 gallon right now.).
How would we disinfect it to make it completely clean? We assume bleach of course. However, could there be little microbes, parasites, etc. like along the bottom? Or in the corners and going up the sides where the glass meets? We are nervous that we wouldn't be able to get it clean enough in order to make it pristine and safe.
We don't even let her in our bath because we are too paranoid that she could come in contact with chemicals. She has her own little bath. We're getting a bigger one soon. She loves the one we do have right now.
We only feed her live Dubia roaches, super worms, and fresh veggies & fruit, All of it with calcium powder and of of all protein is gut loaded. We hope this is good. Someone told me crickets can have parasites and can bite a Beardie if we miss them in her tank.
Also, we are getting a humidity gauge. We live in the DC area so it is going to get very, very humid. Right now we are staying at a friend's house that gets a little humid in the house in the summer. Trying to look it up how to keep the humidity down for her.
We're also looking into keeping our own Dubia and super worm colonies.
We have even more questions of course.
Anyhoo...any help would be greatly appreciated. And any suggestions? We'll take all of it. We love our Sophie!