The TTG Zookeeper @Loke is who you should ask.

Agreed with Taylor

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Honestly imo you shouldn't get them if you don't really know what your doing. I owned an iguana years ago and he was a pain in the ass to take care. You should do a lot of research before getting into reptiles

Stitches wrote Honestly imo you shouldn't get them if you don't really know what your doing. I owned an iguana years ago and he was a pain in the ass to take care. You should do a lot of research before getting into reptiles

Ur problem was getting an iguana.... They are actually pretty difficult to care for tbh bearded dragons are ez pz and are a great starter reptile



@OP gonna be short cus i gotta get ready for work


Let's begin


Substrate - u can use lots of different things such as paper towel, tiles, reptile carpet it's up to you just don't use sand or anything like that.

Food - i feed mine all sorts of greens, super worms, crickets just do research on what greens they can and can't eat, offer them food everyday if they don't eat its not a big deal


Lighting- UVB so incredibly important make sure turn it on in the morning and before u go to bed


Don't keep the together unless it's under a special circumstances

Make sure they have water at all times

Now u should give them baths cus it makes sure they are hydrated and helps them go to the bathroom and helps you bond with them just make sure the water isn't to high or to hot

Keep Temps on one side at around 90F ish and the other side 75F to 80F ish you can use heat bulbs with the UVB ones to get Temps there


Another questions feel free to ask I own 11 bearded dragons


Try to do some research on your own tho

Stitches wrote Honestly imo you shouldn't get them if you don't really know what your doing. I owned an iguana years ago and he was a pain in the ass to take care. You should do a lot of research before getting into reptiles

Iguanas are not terribly hard, a lot of the time is it luck of the draw whether you get one who is docile or not. Give them a large enough space, basking heat and cool side. a fair amount of UVB/natural sunlight & really anything green/colorful they'll eat. They're actually some of the easiest to care for IMO just have to be ready for when they grow up they will size up to 5-6' so just be ready for that in general.

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Going to touch up a little on the areas Loke didn't have a lot of time to cover.

Lighting -- Bearded dragons are more of a basking bound lizard. Keep a good constraint temperature of around 90-94 around the main light, If it is UVB/basking the lights usually tend to have a chart on the side of the package to tell you the heat ranges by inches/feet away keep those in mind when setting up their spaces. Be sure that there is some airflow to cool the other side of the tank off generally don't want it below 72.

bonding -- This varies on how well you treat it. Bonding is important with them, they're usually quick to attach but you don't really want them to get bored so have some sort of activity that you can simply just look up (or use common sense) to get them out and about every now and then.

feeding -- This is an important section that you will want to research some on your own to be sure at times, but various greens/flowers (sounds weird but it's a good substitute to solid greens if you don't have a lot around). Now there are worms, and this is where once you get them started you want to introduce them to small stuff at first, baby crickets work in this sense as well. As they grow you can increase the size, it's not like you can't start them on big worms just may be something you want to watch out for with intake they can choke themselves up it isn't extremely common but can happen.

The other parts are pretty self explanatory, do some of your own research and you can find out most anything you really need to about reptile care. Beardies are a bit different from the others so note that down. Everything mentioned above can vary from one to another. Generally these are a good starting point for them.

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