Our New Dragon Reptar

[jamedl7516]

This is Reptar, our new bearded dragon! We received her and all of her stuff from a friend Nov. 24th. The first time we saw her we instantly loved her. When my fiance Amanda found out she was being given away, we jumped all over it. Reptar's previous owner had too many other animals plus a child on the way and could not afford to take care of her, sooo her loss our gain! I just recently had an impaction scare with her, but I read through the endless posts, and after some applesauce, gatorade and olive oil, she feels light as a feather. Thank you all!

 

[BigDaddyDragon]

Where are the pictures? We wanna see Reptar!!

 

[Craiger]

Congrats...and welcome to mybeardie.com! I don't see any pics, though. *scratches head*

 

[BigDaddyDragon]

Where are the pictures? We wanna see Reptar!!

Excuse me for being rude.... * Ahem *clears throat* welcome to the forum! It's great to have you! Lol.

 

[Craiger]

Where are the pictures? We wanna see Reptar!!

Excuse me for being rude.... * Ahem *clears throat* welcome to the forum! It's great to have you! Lol.

Aw...look. Big Daddy's growin' up! ;D

 

[jamedl7516]

It's not letting me load pictures for some reason, getting pretty frustrated here...

 

[BigDaddyDragon]

Where are the pictures? We wanna see Reptar!!

Excuse me for being rude.... * Ahem *clears throat* welcome to the forum! It's great to have you! Lol.

Aw...look. Big Daddy's growin' up! ;D

Nah uh! You can't make me!

 

[Craiger]

It's not letting me load pictures for some reason, getting pretty frustrated here...

Maybe this link will help.

 

[jamedl7516]

This is Reptar, isn't she beautiful? Thanks for the link Craiger!

 

[Craiger]

This is Reptar, isn't she beautiful? Thanks for the link Craiger!

You're very welcome....and, yes, she's beautiful! Nice find!

 

[jamedl7516]

 

[Craiger]

Quick question....how do you measure her temps? Can you list them? Cool end, warm end, basking surface. Just curious.

 

[jamedl7516]

I use two of those liquid crystal thermometers, one on the cool side, one on the warm side. Her basking surface is a low powered basking rock. Basking side is right around 100F, her cool side is 71F. The rock itself is about 98F.

 

[crystal9534]

aww what a cutie patootie!

 

[Craiger]

I use two of those liquid crystal thermometers, one on the cool side, one on the warm side. Her basking surface is a low powered basking rock. Basking side is right around 100F, her cool side is 71F. The rock itself is about 98F.

Okay. Be very careful when using a heat rock. Beardies are poor at sensing heat from below and have been known to get burned by them. Those thermometers measure air temp...and have been known to be off by almost 20 degrees in regards to actual surface temp. My recommendation would be to get a temp gun. It's the best, most accurate way to measure temps. You can use it to measure the temp of any bath water, too.

 

[jamedl7516]

Will do, thanks for the advice, I would hate for her to get burned. I will get two digital thermometers to replace the liquid crystal ones when I get home. I had to use those as an inexpensive substitute, her previous owner didn't even use thermometers. I think they were also under-heating her, so I bought a 150W heating bulb. Next is a repti-sun 10.0 to replace the old 20W UVB light they had.

 

[Craiger]

Sounds like you're moving in the right direction. You only need one of those temp guns, really. Doesn't hurt to have two, but isn't necessary.

 

[jamedl7516]

Yeah, one temp gun, and two digital thermometers, one for the cool side and one for the warm side. To replace the liquid crystal thermometers. I've never seen one of those temp guns before, they look pretty cool.

 

[Craiger]

They are. It's all I use. You get an accurate reading with just the push of a button.

 

[BigDaddyDragon]

Wow! Reptar is one good looking dragon! Love the tongue pics. Lol