Beardie Pics Here with thanks

[Duke]

Originally Posted by dragon lady

great stuff.........i havent fed mealworms before mine were 6mnths or 30cm (nose to tail) if by chance the hatchie doesnt chew it they can sit & burrow their way through your beardies tummy.....all great if your meaning silkworms which are so much better in protein.
Have you named them yet?.... i think its so cool that each have a pattern quite like a thumbprint on their back & face...so individual eh!

Yeah silkworms.
I don't see any benefit of giving mealworms.
The dots are white-out that Jenny was using to label any that were spoken for, and those (like mine) taht were showing yellow colourations.

Still haven't named them.
I'm having trouble telling them apart. My bad short term memory doesn't permit from remembering their specific antics.
e.g. I know LOVES to sleep in the wood, and I'll probably call him Tarzan. Another shows a lot more yellow more often and I've been thinking 'Ol Yella.
But if Tarzan and 'Ol Yella are one and the same, then I'm stuffed lol.

So for now it's High Spot and Low Spot.
I think I might have to reapply some whiteout to them to help me tell the difference.

[dragon lady]

Sorry...get a bit worried sometimes...just read you are feeding SILK worms ...cool!

[JasonL]

Nice looking beardies, How far away is that UV tube from the floor of the enclosure?

[Duke]

Good question....

From the tile they're 17inches.
Up on the drift wood it's 12inches to the fluoro.

Do you think they need to get closer?
I tried making an outdoors carry enclosure out of gutter mesh, but one of the *******s lunged straight for the side and snuck out. Luckily I was watching him at the time.
I need to pick up some fly screen to reinforce what I've made.

[JasonL]

You really need them to be able to get within 20cm for the UV to reach the lizard, and it's no use measuring from a branch unless the dragon spends plenty of hours each day on it

[Duke]

Tomorrow I might grab a few bricks and try and prop up the tile.
It'll be a bit hard to try and lower the uv

[Jenny]

Thanks Duke and Brettix for the kind words.

I'm very glad that I put the whiteout in different places. Imagine the trouble you'd be in if they were both "middle dot" or simply "dot". 'High dot' and 'low' dot are just beautiful and you'll probably end up calling them high and low or spot and dot!

It is always nice to see my babies go to people who fall in love with them so quickly.

Cheers

Jenny

[Lars K]

Congrats, they are very cute!!!

[Duke]

Here's some pics I took yesterday.

Firstly here's one I dug off my mobile phone. It was taken in the first week of having them.
Man they are tiny!


And now helping me surf APS




And they had shed their tails recently and developed a sudden contrast in colour. Their bodies are nice and brown/grey and then suddenly after the first banding on their tails it's suddenly a nice yellow colour:


YouTube video soon to come...

[Chris1]

how cute are those babies!

take lots of photos cos they grow really fast!!

love the roof tile idea btw, that'd heat up nicely!!

[Leigh]

cool pics Duke, they look content, and healthy too.
hmm, they look just the right size for big beardy food, maybe bring them over here and save me some money on roaches

cya later, Josh

p.s. if you're interested in some astro turf, PM me, ive got spare.

[Duke]

Oh I've since found some bathroom tiles in the garage, and laid them down now.

They were a gloss finish so I just ****ped them over, so they get the rougher surface. And I moved the driftwood under the lamp so they spend most of their time up there.

I may put the tile back in one day for a change, since I don't feed crickets anymore...

[Duke]

Here's some videos I posted on YouTube.

This first one was taken at the same time I posted the photos just above. You can see they're quite grey in this shot:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPFtN8cG48[/ame]

Now here's one I filmed this morning, taken in my room, so the light isn't too good, but you can see they're more yellow now:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni7jyMGPSMk&watch_response[/ame]

[beardedheaven]

i want that branch, my babies would love it

[tankbuster82]

probly a stupid q but thats with the white dots what do they do or show?