desotojoe Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 I recently got a beardie and have a few normal newbie questions. My dragon is about 4 years old. He doesnt seam to eat much of his vegies i give him. I have been making up salad from greated apple pumpkin potato mesclin salad a little bit of carrot parsley or green beans. I have also been feeding him about 6 meal worms a day. I got told to give him calcium every day except sunday and give him vitamins on sunday is this right? Also how often should he poo? I tried giving him a bath ( about 28 degrees) how long should i bath him for? Also i have one of those water well things he doesnt seam to drink much again is that normal? Also there is a little bit of red just under his bottom lip at the front is that also normal? Thanks for any help and i will up a pic of the red soon. Cheers Joe Umm and how do i upload a pic? :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 In my experience most beardies would dehydrate to death becide abowl of water. The odd one will dink but none of mine do. You can give them a bath for half an hour, particularly when shedding or getting dehydrated. There is a good link on the care sheet for beardies on this section. I would not give most of what you are using for salad. Calcium and vitamins about right. I leave live mealworms in there all the time and feed locusts and crickets as well--they will eat them as a preference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FACEAnthrax Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Apparently my fellow drinks from his bowl, I haven't seen him do so. So I just offer him an eyedropper full of water each day to see if he's thirsty sometimes he'll drink other times he wont. To upload a pic just upload to imgur.com and post the link by itself or between some img tags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varanophile Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Make sure that you brumate him. If you don't then usually activity and apetite will be affected. This sums it up: http://www.beardeddragon.org/articles/brumation/ Also maybe buy "The Bearded Dragon Manual" Good book, you can buy over the net on amazon.com pretty cheaply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varanophile Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 and learn the difference between calcium with and without vitamin D, and which one likely suits your situation best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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