Galapoodle
Bearded Dragon Egg
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- Vancouver, BC, Canada
I may have gotten confused about whose post I was replying to... anyway take away what you will, my dragon keeping friends.
Hey a few questions to start, 1.) you said they’re solitary animals, but actually they’re very social animals. What do you mean by this?Hey, so are your 3 dragons cohabitating? That would explain why one is growing more rapidly. You should separate them asap because the other two will suffer from not enough uvb and also, eventually they will turn on each other (we are talking about full on aggressive violence towards each other, even female on female, loss of limbs, tails, not worth it). They are solitary animals despite what pet stores say. I hope you will consider this and if I misunderstood, my apologies.
As far as German giant, from what I have read it's almost been bred out so very rare and my girl is a lot bigger than your boy so I think he's probably just monopolising the uvb. I know that she was the hog of thre light when she was cohabited at the pet store, and she had rapid growth as a juvenile too.
I also only use non loose substrates (repticarpet/tile/etc). Sand is so unlike what they would live on in natural habitat (compact clay) so it makes no sense to put them on it. Glad you're using paper towels. With good husbandry you can help your beardies live longer than they ever could in the wild.
I also removed my dragon's water bowl permanently since they rarely drink standing water and it raised the humidity in her tank and caused a Respiratory infection that almost killed her. They do have a love of soaking though, I give regular baths. As far as hydration they derive most of it from their food.
Hope this info helps and let me know if you have any questions, I'm happy to help.