We have officially had Lincoln, formally known as Hagrid, for 1 week and 4 days. It seems like he is doing good he totally attacks his veggies and loves his crickets. He still has stress marks on his belly but that could have to do with his home being too small.
The people we got Lincoln from seemed to care about their pets but they fell short of good information. If you look at a previous post his tank had crushed walnut shells (big no no), his substrate was dirty, he is in a tank too small. We are trying to spoil him, or at least I am. He is still in the smaller tank but Nathaniel cut slate tile and we made a small dig area with safer substrate, his tank is cleaned daily. Fresh veggies everyday and all the crickets he can eat. There are some other worms I want to buy him and after we move I am thinking about starting a dubia roach colony. They are supposed to be awesome food for beardies and they breed easily. I am still freaked out by bugs but apparently they don't jump they can't climb and don't stink like crickets. Sounds good too me. Nathaniel is talking about building him a custom vivarium after we move. I am excited about that project. Lincoln = Spoiled rotten.
I have a tip: Don't look on craig's list at the animals people are trying to trade, sell, or give away. It is sad story. The poor animals (bearded dragons in my case) look so sad. In dirty conditions not the right tempatures/UVB lighting. It's the pet stores fault. They tell people they are soooo easy to take care of they don't need to eat all that much ect. and people believe them without doing their own research. Do your research people!!!!
It is going to be crazy traveling across the country with our cat Franken, beardie Lincoln, 2 kids, 2 cars, a ton of stuff. I think we are going to need some sort of luck on this adventure.
Ps sorry if the pictures I posted are wonky in any way I am posting from my phone. My computer has "one of the worse virus'" and is "a pain in the ass to fix" I don't know how to fix the size and placement of the pictures from my phone so you get what you get :-P
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