Anyone here have Bearded Dragons?

[Dube]

so i have 3 bearded dragon(just had a clutch of 16 today) but i used to do crickets i made the mistake of ordering 100 one time. never happened again, i now have a dubia colony and if you decide to go with a beardie i will tell you its the only way to go. i love my beardies and they can be expensive to feed if you go the cricket route

[Jabberwocky Dragons]

so i have 3 bearded dragon(just had a clutch of 16 today) but i used to do crickets i made the mistake of ordering 100 one time. never happened again, i now have a dubia colony and if you decide to go with a beardie i will tell you its the only way to go. i love my beardies and they can be expensive to feed if you go the cricket route

Congrats on the clutch! Not to derail the OP's thread but just want to quickly advise to make extra sure your newborn beardies are getting enough to eat. They don't do as well starting out on dubia and will nip like crazy if they aren't extra spread out and fed around the clock. Something about the jumping motion of crickets triggers them that the dubia doesn't. As much as I hate crickets, I used to order thousands of 1/4'' each week until the newborn beardies hit the 4 week mark or so. You can feed them dubias only as new hatchlings, but it requires more work than crickets, just fyi.

[Dube]

Congrats on the clutch! Not to derail the OP's thread but just want to quickly advise to make extra sure your newborn beardies are getting enough to eat. They don't do as well starting out on dubia and will nip like crazy if they aren't extra spread out and fed around the clock. Something about the jumping motion of crickets triggers them that the dubia doesn't. As much as I hate crickets, I used to order thousands of 1/4'' each week until the newborn beardies hit the 4 week mark or so. You can feed them dubias only as new hatchlings, but it requires more work than crickets, just fyi.

yea i figured as much and i didnt wana wipe out my baby dubias with it so i was planing on ordering some closer to the hatch date, so i have plenty of time seeing as they were laid less then 24 hrs ago. but THANK YOU for the info!

[gtrdeath87]

Ya I totally don't care if you guys "derail" anything. As far as I am concerned the post doesn't "belong to me" how ever many people who want to talk about anything the more the merrier.

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[SCWood]

Bearded dragons can be fed easily and inexpensively with the right plan. First, stay away from crickets. They stink, make noise, and die too quickly while waiting to feed. Some places are selling different cricket varieties now and some of these are extremely aggressive...like little insectoid piranhas.

Dubias are the way to go as the primary food source for babies and the primary protein source for adults. Get a little critter keeper, put in top of something that puts off a littleheat, and invest $30-40 for a small colony. This one time purchase should be sufficient to keep your single dragon with dubia for it's lifetime. Supplement as needed with mealworms, superworms, waxworms, etc. but these should not make up a regular part of the diet, that's what your gutloaded dubia are for... they are perfect.

Do you cook? When you're chopping vegetables up for yourself, chop a little on the side for the dragon. Throw your scraps into the dubia colony. If you don't cook and even a quick wash and chop is too time consuming, buy a bag of prewashed dark leafy greens each week, it's not much, and throw some in. A whole head of dark green lettuce is 99 cents but you'll need to give it a quick rinse. Buy some other vegetables or fruit when they're on sale. Your dragon will get a variety of veggies this way and it'll be inexpensive. Yellow squash, zucchini, shredded carrots, strawberries, blackberries, are all very inexpensive, easy to prepare, and are top on beardie's preferred list.

You aren't wrong. I remove uneaten crickets because I have personally seen them pick up and DESTROY live mealies in minutes.

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[SCWood]

What's the thing with Dubias?? My fiancee says EW GROSS lol

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[PitOnTheProwl]

Ya I totally don't care if you guys "derail" anything. As far as I am concerned the post doesn't "belong to me" how ever many people who want to talk about anything the more the merrier.

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[SCWood]

They're illegal in Florida 😢

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[Jhill001]

Feed them meal worms then?

[Daigga]

I have owned a pair of iguanas, male and female (Rex and Lou), and got my bearded dragon after I moved in with my husband. If you want a challenge and are willing to bite the housing costs, iguanas can be pretty cool, but if they aren't properly socialized they can be a little too much of a challenge. Despite being herbivores, they have lots of very sharp teeth and can give a pretty good whack with their tails when they're feeling grouchy. My male was a sweetheart and could be taken out and handled with ease except around the breeding season when he would posture and puff up all the time. My female was a nightmare that refused human contact from start to finish despite my best efforts and intentions and was exceptionally talented at snaking out of her enclosure when we would go to feed her. Still, I liked having both of them around even if Lou was really only a "look at me" pet.




Our beardie is another story. She's smaller than my igs, which is actually kind of nice, and much more docile and laid back. Her personality is sweet and charming, even if she can be a bit finnicky sometimes. Their care is certainly much easier than an iguanas, since almost nothing you can buy at major pet stores comes in a size big enough for an adult iguana (who max out around 5-6 feet). It seems like an adult bearded dragon is about the biggest thing Petco or Petsmart can equip you for, which works if that's what you're looking to get.



In the end it's all up to you. There are so many options and so much variation in a single species that it's a hard decision to make based on other's experience.