Egg Size Correlating to Genetics: Bearded Dragons

Is there a correlation to egg size and genetics in bearded dragon hatchlings? The 3 largest eggs I hatched out of my Nada x Xerxes clutch were translucent.





Nada

Xerxes

Halloween Costume Contest: Pet Warehouse Joplin, MO

Happy Halloween my friends! Here are some details about the upcoming Halloween Costume Contest: All entries must be turned in by October 29, 2012. Winner receives a $25.00 gift card to be used on any merchandise in the store! I found out about this contest last week when I was buying my feeder mice and rats for my ball pythons. Pet Warehouse has been great to me over the years and I plan on maintaining my regular status for years to come. A lightbulb went on and I decided to enter my male hypo super citrus bearded dragon, Xerxes, into the Halloween costume contest. Xerxes is sire to Nada in my available clutch located on Faunaclassifieds, Google+, Craigslist and eBay Classifieds. If Xerxes wins this contest you could own a bearded dragon from a prize winning blood line!

Pet Warehouse
2207 West 7th Street
Joplin, MO
(417)781-8100
Mon-Sat 10am-8pm
Sun 12pm-6pm



Xerxes (yes, he's dressed up as a pretty ballerina)

Dubia Roach separation anxiety, how do they sort the nymphs out?

Ok, this week I ran into a new obstacle. I have 13 bearded dragon hatchlings that eat like hummingbirds. Last week I dropped $50.00 on crickets from Armstrongs, wonderful crickets but they were gone in a week so now I need a new feeder. Luckily I happen to have about 6,000+ blaptica dubia aka: dubia roaches in my closet stashed away for safe keeping. I typically sort out about 100 of the baby dubia, nymphs, at a time but this is very time consuming. I could order 1,000 dubia nymphs from buydubiaroaches and drop another $50.00 or thanks to my loving wife, I chose to sort through my colony of 6,000+ dubia. Now, the question at hand is how to sort the nymphs out without eating away at ten years of my life? Well, there's a wonderful little invention, you might have heard about it, Microsoft offered 44.6 billion dollars for it, Google, which was known as Yahoo! for the old crusty people like myself who remember it that way. Apparently this "Google" on the "internet device" will help answer questions. My wife came up with this wonderful little site, ironically is also on blogger.com, here's the link: Dubia Roach Guide. I ended up spending $7.50 on 3 Walmart brand painters buckets, you know the kind you use to wash your car with, drilled about 3 million holes and voilà, 1,000 sorted dubia nymphs. Now my ravenous dragon hatchlings have about $50.00 worth of nymphs give or take a hundred and I only had to spend $7.50. I actually dropped a twenty but I netted Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and some antibacterial hand soap, the trilogy is complete! Below are some pics of our friend blaptica dubia, oh yeah check out this care sheet for optimal care, insert link here.



Top: Male (distuingishable by it's longer wings) Bottom: Female





Size ratio for dubia nymph




Solid Example of a Dubia Colony

Help Impaction?!?!?!?

I have been dealing with a 0.1 beardie (bearded dragon), named Ruby, that has lost her appetite gradually over the past few months. Her weight has dropped considerably, enough to the point where her tail is showing bones through her skin. After using the Google on the internet device I came up with some tactics. First I tried feeding her pedialyte through a syringe, then I skipped a day. She immediately starting looking more lively and her colors got brighter. Day 2 of feeding I mixed baby food and Pedialyte then administered it to Ruby and she loved the baby food. I skipped another day and mixed baby food with water, then later administered Pedialyte. Now I've run into another problem. Her symptoms are as follows; Ruby has lost skin pigment and looks almost completely white, she looks bloated and I have unfortunately found a hard mass on her right side if you're looking at her belly. I'm starting to think she is impacted as I have not seen signs of parasites in her feces. If she doesn't show any signs of improvement after giving her 2 warm baths, fiber mixed with water and olive oil administered through a syringe, daily stomach massages to try and break up the impaction and warmer cage temps I'm going to have to pay a visit to the local exotic animal veterinarian. Unfortunately I don't think he will perform surgery on Ruby, I'll keep my fingers crossed and hopefully it won't come down to that.

Here is a helpful link if you're experiencing similar problems with your bearded dragon.




Larthagy is a symptom of impaction



X-ray of bearded dragon with sand impaction