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What is it you need to know? I have two beardies and they are just awesome

As young hatchlings, beardies mainly eat bugs, I feed roaches, but you should offer salad also, but salad isn't as important if they don't eat it, some don't start eating salad until they are adults. Some babies can eat up to 100 bugs in one sitting, my boy Yoshi ate about 30-60. Hatchlings should try to be fed at least once or twice a day. I found a great place that sells 1,000 Turk roaches for under 20 bucks. No smell, they can't fly, and they can't climb slippery surfaces, and there way better than crickets.

There are a ton of veggies/fruits they can eat, I fed a small salad every day or every other day.

As an adult, I only feed my beardie bugs a couple times a week, and salad the other days, he's a hog though so he'll eat everything all the time.

Mine loves Collard greens, mustard greens, a bunch of types of squash and any types of fruit like strawberries, melons, apples, etc...

The only thing that's complicated/expensive about them is the full spectrum lighting.

You need a regular basking bulb to heat up a spot where they can just soak up the sun and get warm. I have a cement block right under my heat bulb and he(Yoshi) sits on it and soaks up the rays. They need a hot side, and a cool side. So for mine, the basking bulb is on the left, nothing on the right. As adults, they will need about a 40 gallon breeder tank. Yoshi seems fine in his and he's full grown, about 18 inches.

You need a UVA/UVB bulb, which basically represents the sun. They usually don't emit heat. You don't want to get the new spiral kind as these are thought to damage the eyes. The best kind are just the long tube kind, kind of like flourescent lightbulbs for fish tanks. You need the high UVB kind, I believe its like 10.0, it's for desert reptiles. But you can also get a mercury vapor bulb, which are pricy, but they are heat and all the UVB you need in one bulb! They work great, cheaper online usually.

Most beardies won't drink out of a water dish, but I offer it to him anyways. Mist him occassionaly. And spary all his veggies before he gets fed.

Some can be bratty as babies, but after lots of handeling they tame down quickly. My Beardie Yoshi is a pretty nice sized male and he's never shown any aggression and just loves to chill out.

I only bring him outside when it's really warm, he doesn't mind chilling out on my shoulder and walking around.

Hope this helps