Breaded Dragon Terrarium in Ohio - Aquarium Advice

JPKeenan · 08-08-2009, 07:19 PM

30 x 12 x 12.5 glass, two lamps, cricket holder (like the small 1g hermit crab cages), some cricket food, a few other assorted odds and ends. I have to wait for the batteries to charge to take picture.

My beardy died a while back. I am torn between getting another one and making room for another fish aquarium.

Make an offer. May take trades depending on what you have to offer.

I am in NE Ohio.

spoonman · 08-08-2009, 08:30 PM

How do Breaded dragons taste? Sorry, I couldn't resist....

JPKeenan · 08-08-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by spoonman

How do Breaded dragons taste? Sorry, I couldn't resist....

Well they taste a bit like gecko but with a bit of Vegemite as an aftertaste.

Seriously though I am trying to clear out some space for another tank. Thinking if I don't have any luck on craigslist or other classified sites I might donate it to a school.

MichaelsLilGray · 08-08-2009, 10:33 PM

im in texas or id be interested... what caused the last one you had to die? a 20 gallon long should be good for a young-adult beardie but not a full grown one....

JPKeenan · 08-08-2009, 11:24 PM

I think it had to do with not having a heating pad (basking lamp and a UV lamp I thought would be enough)... plus at the time I was working 12 hour shifts on freaky nights. Light cycles were off, apartment would be warm during the day and chilly at night as it was getting to be fall.

MichaelsLilGray · 08-08-2009, 11:32 PM

they do not require a heating pad.. as long as you have a basking lamp pushing the temp to 105 and a uv lamp.. keeping calcium on your crickets.. you should have a healthy beardie... what kind of substrate did you have? carpet? sand? millitt?

Sometimes they will die because of eating sand, which they cant pass... including cal sand...

If you go again.. look for walnut shell sand.. its basically powdered walnut shells... and make sure you are using reptisafe for the water, and cal dusting your crickets..

keep in mind.. desert temps (i know they are from Australia) but they can range from 40* at night.. all the way to 110 in the day... so i doubt anything like that contributed..

Etunes · 08-09-2009, 12:13 AM

Hey micheal, i am guessing you own a reptile. Because i do. I own a beutiful little female mali uromastyx. I want to get her a nice litttle boyfriend 1 day.

I would take it if i was near you but i am in florida, Thats a little bit of a drive.

MichaelsLilGray · 08-09-2009, 12:34 AM

Nopers.. girlfriend does though lol

JPKeenan · 08-09-2009, 01:05 PM

I had gravel as a substrate. And some rocks from Lake Erie that I boiled (the rocks are now in my fish tanks). When I got the crickets I got them dusted, but I would usually get enough to last for a week...

She would end up only eating the crickets. She would bask in her food dish with pellets, and would not go need the lettuce I would give her. She was a juvenile, about the size of a 100 pack of cigarettes.

MichaelsLilGray · 08-09-2009, 03:10 PM

sounds to me to just have been bad luck =/.. sorry to hear.