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09-May-08, 10:16 AM
|  | Has Ant Rage Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 18  | | |
Hi
i havnt posted in a while but now i have a question haha
my beardies have been on carpet since i bought them last september
and im thinking of changing it to sand
i'm kinda worried about impaction but i heard after 5 months of age, sand will be fine and they're well past that now.
i mainly want to add sand so they have somewhere to dig ect.
so should i add sand?
cheers
camo...
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09-May-08, 10:19 AM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | it is not a good idea but if you do feed in a diffrent container
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09-May-08, 10:21 AM
| | Has Ant Rage Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 18 | | | | yeah they're fed in a feeder tank usually
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09-May-08, 10:21 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Central Coast Gender:  | | | | I have kept my beardies on sand and bark for a long time now and havent had an issue.
I use a worm bowl and insect feeder for crickets so they aent really chasing around eating of the sand so much |
09-May-08, 10:23 AM
| | Has Ant Rage Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 18 | | | | ok cool thanks
yeah 2 of my friends had theres on sand all there life with no trouble
is impaction as common as everyone says?
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09-May-08, 10:25 AM
| | Regular Member | | | | | i don't think it really is but i don't know
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09-May-08, 10:26 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Central Coast Gender: | | | | i have never had an issue with impaction, actually i was talking to someone from this site just the other day about it and what they said makes sense.
You dont get impaction by just eating a little bit of sand, it is something that needs to build over time and needs a consistent high intake. (well thats what i took from it anyway) which sort of makes sense, its like if we eat sand. We arent goign to get impaction from having a mouthfull, it will pass through but if we continued to eat more then something would go wrong i would think |
09-May-08, 10:29 AM
| | Has Ant Rage Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 18 | | | | yeah that makes sense
i mean if they got it from just a few bits of sand then we'd find dead wild ones everywhere!
if they were walking around grazing on sand then their would be a problem haha
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09-May-08, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by jellybelly  i have never had an issue with impaction, actually i was talking to someone from this site just the other day about it and what they said makes sense.
You dont get impaction by just eating a little bit of sand, it is something that needs to build over time and needs a consistent high intake. (well thats what i took from it anyway) which sort of makes sense, its like if we eat sand. We arent goign to get impaction from having a mouthfull, it will pass through but if we continued to eat more then something would go wrong i would think | Sounds right to me
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