December 14th 2015 - Bath time

Today I bathed the bearded dragon as he is starting to shed his skin again but he seemed more dry than usual.

Unlike most images of the beardies in a bath of water that seem to be enjoying themselves mine was just trying to get out of the sink!

March 10th 2015 - Making a new hide

March 10th 2015 - Making anew hide

My bearded dragon is growing!  This is good for him but not for me as the hide I made him from expanding foam when he was a baby is now getting too small and he can only get his head/front into it not all of him.

So I looked on pinterest for ideas to make him a new hide.  There isn't many but as I needed a pin for today I have linked to one of them. 

I had the box my smoke machine came in going in recycling bin, so I decided to use this for his new hide as its big.

I cut out the middle of the box as an arch so he could get in/out of it.

I then covered the inside in expanding foam, making sure that all of the edges and pins that hold the box together were covered.  The expanding foam gives a really bumpy/rock look when its dry.

I'm now waiting for this to fully dry so that I can add a ramp to it and then coat the ramp and the outside with expanding foam so that it all looks like rock.  I will update and add more pics once its done and then it will need to be painted with grey acrylic.

January 20th 2015 - What can a bearded dragon eat?

January 20th 2015 - What can a bearded dragon eat?

The answer is lots  of things, but this isn't helpful when i'm stood in the supermarket with no internet signal to check as I can't remember!

So today's pin is another linked to my phone - I am compiling a list to my phone of things he can eat daily/regularly and not so often.  I did have 1 up until my phone went in for repairs and I never re-made it.

I found a pin about bearded dragon food on pinterest so I have linked to that as well as the interent as there is a wide range of things they can eat not on this list. 

My beardie is really funny, although he (she maybe as not checked its sex but were told male when bought it) will eat alot of vegetables it goes crazy for greens!  spinach, kale, dandelion leaves, peas and pea shoots etc.  I'm not sure if beardies can tell colours or not, but he certainly goes more mad for them than anything else he gets given.

here is part of the list on my phone

A new baby......

........not of the human variety I may add!  But I have been and bought a baby bearded dragon.  It is believed that it is a "he" but as only 7weeks old this may not be correct as very hard to tell under 8-10weeks.

We have named him Hunter.  He has lots of orange to his markings.  He is very small.

 

On my 11yr old hand to show size

We only got him because our Tortoise died, she was a rescue pet and had been fed cat meat daily for her 1st year of life.  The vets said she would only live for 2-3years and we had her for 9years, so she was 10yrs old when she died.