Private breeder of Tarantulas, Scorpions, 4 types of Roaches and Superorms. Resides in sunny S. Ca. This blog is all about my collection of various critters. You'll find care sheets, tutorials and various information on my Reptiles & Inverts.
I had a subscriber emailing me asking if she could give her dragons a bath, if it was safe. I replied “yes”. I explained to her and thought I would go ahead and do a bathing video for all of you as well. You should bathe your dragon(s) at least once a week.
For those not familiar with bathing bearded dragons. Take a dish pan or similar as shown in video. Fill with an inch to two inches of warm water, or should depth. Place your dragon in the water slowly. Sometimes your dragon may move quickly if water is to warm or cold. Let your dragon settle in and let it bathe for a good 20-30 minutes or until they get ressless and want out. Important to never take your eyes off your pet. You wouldn’t want an acidental drowning.
Bathing serves several purposes. They get clean, they rehydrate, and it helps them relax and in many cases relieve themselve right in the water. So prepare for cleanup. If your dragon ever seems impacted, give it a bath in warm water. Sometimes you may have to change the water and rewarm it, but this method works well.
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Thought I would display my small colony of Blaberus discoidalis roaches, also known as Discoids or False Death Heads. Discoids are a little larger than B. dubia roaches. They have more exoskeleton as well and not neccessarily a good feeder for smaller reptiles such as bearded dragons, etc. Both males and females have wings, they don’t fly or climb smooth surfaces.
They hide more and move frantically through there hides. They don’t like to be disturbed. Females give live birth when the temps are kept high. Discoids also require more humidity than some of the other tropical varieties. I use Discoids as feeders for my larger tarantulas and a Savannah montitor my son cares for.
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Buffy finally layed her eggs today, 3rd clutch this year. I put her in her laying bin this morning, and she finished laying late this afternoon. My son gave her a bath to clean off all the peat moss, while my wife carefully uncovered the clutch of eggs. When all done, she found 19 eggs. Put them in a 8×8 Sterilite container half fullof damp vermiculite. Then the container was placed into a reptile incubator set at 84°F. If all goes well, eggs should hatch out around mid October.
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A brief video showing off my Bearded Dragons, Buffy and Angel. Buffy is a 3 year old female sandfire, 16″ in length and over 350g. Angel is a 4 year old male citrus, 17¼” in length and also 350g+. Both are housed together for various reasons. From my understanding, they have lived together since they were babies. I acquired them from a friend about 16 months ago. Their very active and healthy.
Their enclosure is a 55 gal. reptile tank with a rough tile on the cool side and newspaper and paper towel throughout the rest. They have a 100w light for basking and 18″ Repti-Sun 10 for UBV. They get fed mustard greens throughout the day and B. dubia Roaches a couple times a day with Superworms every couple of days. Angel love his Superworms more than the roaches. He gets stopped up though if he gets to many. Buffy on the other hand is an eating machine and has no problem with Superworms or Roches.
As i mention in the video, Buffy is gravid, again, 3rd clutch for me. I just put her in her egg laying bin and can hear her digging away. The two of them produce some nice colored babies. Click here for some baby photos.
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