a 20 gallon glass and baby beardie??

[Pet with a tail]

hey everyone i am looking into buying a bearded dragon and i am building it a huge screen enclosure but until that is finished would it be okay to keep it in a 10 or 20 gallon ??? it would only be for a very short period of time but my petshop just sells the pets to anyone and i dont want our college students to buy them cause all they do is party and they would never get taken care of besides that i think it would be another reptile i would enjoy taking care of...i have plenty of lighting sytems to use if they can have the same basking bulbs as my veiled?

[BurmGuy87]

Hey.....it would be ok considering the Beardie is under a foot I would think..and if you have the correct UVB lighting for the 20...and the 10? I dont know if they even sell UVB that small.

But an adult enclosure would have to be about 55.....I say just buy it and the UVB much easier.

[Pet with a tail]

i have the lighting for a 10 gallon already because i had other reptiles but i want to get a bearded as i said and i just need to know if i can keep him/ her in a 10 or 20 gallon til his cage is ready, wont be but a few weeks 2-3 and our pet shop sells them 3-4 inches big and thats what id be doing....i just want to research before i buy...im building a 5 ft tall screen enclosurei really dont like putting lizards in aquariums...just doesnt fot them....but you think for now it would be okay?

[Matt.B]

Um if the beardie is under a foot like burm said than a 20 would be fine the only time that I have housed a beardie in a ten is the first one that I owned (I hate to admit it but it was an impulse buy) but without proper husbandry a beardies even as hardy as it is would get stressed out and could die.
Matt

[Matt.B]

I would say PLEASE DO NOT BUY A 3-4" BEARDIE they are extremly fragile and pet stores usually do not have healthy babies.
Matt

[BurmGuy87]

Well then good..........but 5ft tall????????? Beardies are terrestrial man....hopefully you meant 5ft LONG!

[Pet with a tail]

yeah excuse me lol.....sorry i was discussing with my boyfriend on building a5 ft tall for my veiled sorry lol... okay so i am pretty sure i have the equipment i need but now i need to learn about them...

[BurmGuy87]

Well check out www.anapsid.org and go to Yahoo and type in Bearded Dragons....Bearded Dragon Care...anything you can think of and start readiN! or you could pick up a book

and a 5ft tall would be KILLEr for a veiled!

[Pet with a tail]

what do u mean by killer?? i have a tree that we are building 5ft for

[BurmGuy87]

haha you miss understood me:) When I say Killer...I mean awesome, magnificent, great, grand SPENDID! hahaha you get the picture

[Pet with a tail]

okay lol good...do you happen to know how often a bearded dragon can be handled?

[BurmGuy87]

Um to my knowledge they are quite handleable. So I would say pretty often

[C.m.pyrrhus]

I am going to add this as well:


my petshop just sells the pets to anyone and i dont want our college students to buy them cause all they do is party and they would never get taken care of besides that i think it would be another reptile i would enjoy taking care of...
If you plan on buying a bearded for a future pet, instead of purchasing it now, GIVE IT TIME!. Please do some more research, it seems as if you are going to need it. Also, I would recommend getting everything up and running before the purchase of ANY animal is made. You want to know if everything is working correctly before you add life to it. This is the MOST IMPORTANT part of starting the deal. Do not move until you get a home...get the picture? I do not want to seem as an a$$, but it seriuosly seems as though you are acting to fast on your desire. Would be great for you to take your time, research, then build your cage...add your lights and what not...then buy the dragon.

Good Luck, and do take the time to get things right.

[Pet with a tail]

oh i am doing plenty of research on them its still going to be a while before i get one im just asking about them so ill know what they need and what not...anyways...my other animals are hppy and ive seenpics of other set-ups so i should be good...

[drewlowe]

Blah ****** site, such crap!!!! Sorry burm guy nothing against you just her.

Good advice C.m.pyrrhus!!!!

Give me a bit i will email you a care sheet... But it's at home. Or do a search for the site borders dragons.

[K1LOS]

figure out your chameleon before you get a beardie. And be prepared when you do get it, those little guys can eat you out of house and home!

Geoff

[Pet with a tail]

what do you mean figure out mycham before i get abeardie, my cham is justfine and dandy...??

[Bighead]

then you just "figured him out" i the last couple of days. I recall such questions as, "what do they eat?" "Can I handle it?" "Can I keep it in a 10 gallon?" And I know it's not a question, but "Everyone knows that reptiles grow to the size of their enclosures."

[Pet with a tail]

um...no i didnt ask any of those questions....your taking my questions out of context and making me look like an idiot, you are the one following everyone around quoting them all...even trying to make i have a cham04 and me look like eacg other...my chameleon was never in a 10 gallon he was in a 30 gallon then i made him an enclosure...if i were you id stop following people around and quoting them...your probably a snot nosed brat that has rather sit around quoting people then going out and having a life....

[terry_stack]

Pet with a tail it has already been proven that you were( I have a cham04)so why don't you drop the bad attitude. You have no idea how stupid you make yourself look! You are the one who asks all the questions that anyone could find the answers on the internet in ten minutes. I would rather be a "snot nose brat" than a proven liar.
Not just my opinion, I'm sure!!!
Terry