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OK sooo, for a while I've been on to snakes, but I couldn't get a mouse-eating one because of my parents. My second choice was to get a lizard, so I'm thinking about a bearded dragon. I need all the info i can get.
what do they eat?
What sort of supplies and accessories do they need?
how much does a baby usually cost?
what size tank will they need, how much does that cost?
pros and cons?
Thx!!!
Answer
First of all, you need this website: http://www.beardeddragon.org
You will learn everything you need there.
Secondly, DO NOT LISTEN TO ADVICE FROM THE PET STORE!! They don't know squat about caring for exotics, so make sure you know everything you need before you go, and don't let them talk you out of something you know to be true. That's why you need the above website!
Here is a basic list:
20g tank minimum. You'll need at least a 40g breeder when he's grown, so you may want to go ahead and get the bigger one. You can block off part of it if he seems intimidated by the size.
Craigslist is a great place to find cheap tanks.
Solid substrate for the bottom - Repticarpet, paper towels, non-adhesive shelf liner, or my favorite, tiles. Tiles are great. You only have to buy them once. They are super easy to clean and disinfect. They come in a lot of colors and styles so you can customize your look. They also help keep beardie's nails filed down. Sand, especially calcium sand, or any other particle substrate poses an impaction risk and should not be used for a dragon under one year old. And then washed childrens playsand is the only safe option.
You can go real cheap here, pennies for paper towels or less than $10 for tiles.
Thermometer - A temp gun or digital indoor/outdoor therm with a probe on a wire. The stick on type are useless, and it's important that you accurately monitor your temps. The probe goes directly on the basking spot, and this temp should be 100-110. The cool side should stay around 80.
Wal Mart sells the Acurite Digital Weather Station for $12. It is an indoor/outdoor therm with the probe and works perfect for this application.
Heat bulb and fixture - Lowes and Wal Mart both have metal dome work light fixtures. These work great. The bulb can be just a regular household bulb. You might need to try different wattages to see which one gives you the temps you need. Usually a 75W or 100W will do.
Bulb <$1, Fixure: $10
UVB bulb and fixture - AVOID THE COMPACT COIL. Linear fluorescents provide the best UVB (besides MVB bulbs, but you can learn about that on bd.org) and REPTISUN 10.0 (not ReptiGLO) is the best fluor bulb on the US market. You can get the fixture at Lowes or Wal Mart for a reasonable price. Make sure the fixture does not have a glass or plastic shield over the light. Glass and plastic both completely filter UVB. The bulbs are way cheaper if you order them online from somewhere like Pet Mountain.
Bulb: $30-$60 depending on which type you get. The fluor needs to be replaced ever 6 months and the MVB just once a year so the yearly costs are about the same.
Fixture: 24" fluor fixture at Wal Mart for $8, or the work light fixture for MVB for $10.
Then you'll want some cage furniture, a basking rock or log, a hide if you like (although a hide isn't really necessary), some fake greenery to make it pretty. You might want to consider something to enclose 3 sides of your tank. Some beardies freak out about all the visibility, but some don't seem to notice. I used fake bamboo blinds to do this and it looked great.
A baby needs to eat 2-3 times a day, as many crickets as he can eat in 10-15 minutes. This can equal 50 or even up to 100 crickets a day. A juvie/sub-adult can eat once a day, as many as he can eat, and an adult needs about 50 crickets a week, so you can feed him every other or every 3 days.
You'll need a plan for your live feeders. Again, way cheaper to buy in bulk online than a few at a time at the pet store (and healthier too, no doubt). A 20 qt or bigger plastic tub does nicely. Cut a hole in the lid and hot glue or duct tape some screen on top for ventilation. You can learn all you need about caring for your crix at bd.org, and you can also learn about other feeders.
A dragon of any age needs a salad of a dark, leafy green (like collards) and some other healthy veggie (like squash) available every day.
Here's a good website to tell you which veggies are good for your dragon:
http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.coâ¦
Okay, just as important, I will give you a list of things NOT to get, no matter what the pet store tells you!
*calcium sand
*crushed walnut shells
*any substrate that has particles
*stick on thermometers
*crickets bigger than the space between his eyes
*mealworms
*compact coil UVB bulbs
*heat pad
*blue or red night light
First of all, you need this website: http://www.beardeddragon.org
You will learn everything you need there.
Secondly, DO NOT LISTEN TO ADVICE FROM THE PET STORE!! They don't know squat about caring for exotics, so make sure you know everything you need before you go, and don't let them talk you out of something you know to be true. That's why you need the above website!
Here is a basic list:
20g tank minimum. You'll need at least a 40g breeder when he's grown, so you may want to go ahead and get the bigger one. You can block off part of it if he seems intimidated by the size.
Craigslist is a great place to find cheap tanks.
Solid substrate for the bottom - Repticarpet, paper towels, non-adhesive shelf liner, or my favorite, tiles. Tiles are great. You only have to buy them once. They are super easy to clean and disinfect. They come in a lot of colors and styles so you can customize your look. They also help keep beardie's nails filed down. Sand, especially calcium sand, or any other particle substrate poses an impaction risk and should not be used for a dragon under one year old. And then washed childrens playsand is the only safe option.
You can go real cheap here, pennies for paper towels or less than $10 for tiles.
Thermometer - A temp gun or digital indoor/outdoor therm with a probe on a wire. The stick on type are useless, and it's important that you accurately monitor your temps. The probe goes directly on the basking spot, and this temp should be 100-110. The cool side should stay around 80.
Wal Mart sells the Acurite Digital Weather Station for $12. It is an indoor/outdoor therm with the probe and works perfect for this application.
Heat bulb and fixture - Lowes and Wal Mart both have metal dome work light fixtures. These work great. The bulb can be just a regular household bulb. You might need to try different wattages to see which one gives you the temps you need. Usually a 75W or 100W will do.
Bulb <$1, Fixure: $10
UVB bulb and fixture - AVOID THE COMPACT COIL. Linear fluorescents provide the best UVB (besides MVB bulbs, but you can learn about that on bd.org) and REPTISUN 10.0 (not ReptiGLO) is the best fluor bulb on the US market. You can get the fixture at Lowes or Wal Mart for a reasonable price. Make sure the fixture does not have a glass or plastic shield over the light. Glass and plastic both completely filter UVB. The bulbs are way cheaper if you order them online from somewhere like Pet Mountain.
Bulb: $30-$60 depending on which type you get. The fluor needs to be replaced ever 6 months and the MVB just once a year so the yearly costs are about the same.
Fixture: 24" fluor fixture at Wal Mart for $8, or the work light fixture for MVB for $10.
Then you'll want some cage furniture, a basking rock or log, a hide if you like (although a hide isn't really necessary), some fake greenery to make it pretty. You might want to consider something to enclose 3 sides of your tank. Some beardies freak out about all the visibility, but some don't seem to notice. I used fake bamboo blinds to do this and it looked great.
A baby needs to eat 2-3 times a day, as many crickets as he can eat in 10-15 minutes. This can equal 50 or even up to 100 crickets a day. A juvie/sub-adult can eat once a day, as many as he can eat, and an adult needs about 50 crickets a week, so you can feed him every other or every 3 days.
You'll need a plan for your live feeders. Again, way cheaper to buy in bulk online than a few at a time at the pet store (and healthier too, no doubt). A 20 qt or bigger plastic tub does nicely. Cut a hole in the lid and hot glue or duct tape some screen on top for ventilation. You can learn all you need about caring for your crix at bd.org, and you can also learn about other feeders.
A dragon of any age needs a salad of a dark, leafy green (like collards) and some other healthy veggie (like squash) available every day.
Here's a good website to tell you which veggies are good for your dragon:
http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.coâ¦
Okay, just as important, I will give you a list of things NOT to get, no matter what the pet store tells you!
*calcium sand
*crushed walnut shells
*any substrate that has particles
*stick on thermometers
*crickets bigger than the space between his eyes
*mealworms
*compact coil UVB bulbs
*heat pad
*blue or red night light
please answer these questions about sims 3 pc!?
Ben Smart
1st question: what is new in the expansion packs e.g. New items, new people, etc
2nd question: how can i crack the sims 3 + expansions? (i heard you have to crack the last expansion you install but i tried that and it doesn't work. PLEASE HELP!!!)
3rd question: what is new in the sims 3? (is there new things like building upstairs in a house, new items, etc?)
4th question: what RAM and graphics card would be good to use to play sims 3 very fast? (would 6gb ram be good?)
5th question: do you get to build your own house like in all of the other sims games? (i played the game on my WII but it was rubbish. i heard that on pc you can do a lot more)
You don't have to answer all questions but it would be nice if you could
ps: put name of question before answering e.g. 1st question........
Answer
1. World Adventures
Additions: New traits, items, clothing
Features: quests, tomb exploration at three new destinations, photography, new build functions including the basement tool, nectar, fireworks, shops, vacation homes
Ambitions
Additions: New careers, skills, traits, and items
Features: control within work (professions and selected careers), laundry, tattoo system, skill-based self-employment
Late Night
Additions: New careers, skills, traits, clothes and accessories, furniture, and cars
Features: bars, night clubs, penthouse suites, hot tubs, subway portholes, elevators, breast and muscle definition sliders, Group, Band, zodiac signs, new swimming pool design tools, height adjustment for wall objects and fountain tool.
Generations
Additions: New playground equipment, mid-life crisis, new interactions, new traits
Features: Pranks, body hair for males, new types of celebrations (i.e. birthday/teen/bachelor parties, weddings), memories, graduation ceremonies, imaginative play, potions, spiral staircases, water slides, boarding schools (lasts from childhood to young adult), pillow fights.
Pets
Additions: New pets, new animal and sim traits, Create-A-Pet, new lifetime wishes and rewards, new interactions, new items, new venues and community locations, new pet and sim skills
Features: Controllable animals (cats, dogs, horses), and non-playable creatures (see NPC section), pet contests
High-End Loft Stuff
High-end furnishings, mainly technology such as televisions, video game consoles, and computers, as well as postmodern designs of bookshelves, tables, and chairs.
Fast Lane Stuff
New vehicles and items for four different fast-lane lifestyles: racing, intrigue, rockabilly, and classic luxury. The "Vehicle Enthusiast" trait is also added in this Stuff pack.
Outdoor Living Stuff
New furnishings, outdoor electronics, and fire pits and fireplaces. Newer hot tubs were added to the game.
Town Life Stuff
New venues and community lots such as playgrounds, libraries, and laundromats. Also includes an assortment of new items and clothing.
2. It's in the .nfo / usually put the crack in the bin directory.
3. New graphics, traits, more floors/stories, a town you can move in freely...
4. 2GB of ram and a GeForce 8800GT would be enough to play at high w/ high edge smoothing
5. Yes...
1. World Adventures
Additions: New traits, items, clothing
Features: quests, tomb exploration at three new destinations, photography, new build functions including the basement tool, nectar, fireworks, shops, vacation homes
Ambitions
Additions: New careers, skills, traits, and items
Features: control within work (professions and selected careers), laundry, tattoo system, skill-based self-employment
Late Night
Additions: New careers, skills, traits, clothes and accessories, furniture, and cars
Features: bars, night clubs, penthouse suites, hot tubs, subway portholes, elevators, breast and muscle definition sliders, Group, Band, zodiac signs, new swimming pool design tools, height adjustment for wall objects and fountain tool.
Generations
Additions: New playground equipment, mid-life crisis, new interactions, new traits
Features: Pranks, body hair for males, new types of celebrations (i.e. birthday/teen/bachelor parties, weddings), memories, graduation ceremonies, imaginative play, potions, spiral staircases, water slides, boarding schools (lasts from childhood to young adult), pillow fights.
Pets
Additions: New pets, new animal and sim traits, Create-A-Pet, new lifetime wishes and rewards, new interactions, new items, new venues and community locations, new pet and sim skills
Features: Controllable animals (cats, dogs, horses), and non-playable creatures (see NPC section), pet contests
High-End Loft Stuff
High-end furnishings, mainly technology such as televisions, video game consoles, and computers, as well as postmodern designs of bookshelves, tables, and chairs.
Fast Lane Stuff
New vehicles and items for four different fast-lane lifestyles: racing, intrigue, rockabilly, and classic luxury. The "Vehicle Enthusiast" trait is also added in this Stuff pack.
Outdoor Living Stuff
New furnishings, outdoor electronics, and fire pits and fireplaces. Newer hot tubs were added to the game.
Town Life Stuff
New venues and community lots such as playgrounds, libraries, and laundromats. Also includes an assortment of new items and clothing.
2. It's in the .nfo / usually put the crack in the bin directory.
3. New graphics, traits, more floors/stories, a town you can move in freely...
4. 2GB of ram and a GeForce 8800GT would be enough to play at high w/ high edge smoothing
5. Yes...
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