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True - I did not only give him lettuce, but, leafy greens and veggies. The shredded carrots and avacado were his favorites. Sometimes he liked tomato, but not too often. I tried to give him nutrition, not just greens. I wish I had known then about the powder supplement.

What other vegetables would be good for them? What about fruits?

Oooh, let's see, I'm more of turtle person who doesn't actually own any lizards, so maybe Navigaar will come back and let us know. But my Bearded Dragon book suggests colorful chopped fruits and vegetables and has a photo of those frozen mixed veggies you can get in a bag (corn, carrots, green beans) and thaw. Also suggests in small amounts figs, kiwfruit, apples, berries, green peas, and banana.

The book also says that the babies need live prey: the smallest available crickets (pinhead crickets) dusted in a calcium powder and offered three times a day. It's important to keep the crickets smallest size possible or the babies might have some intestinal / paralysis problems associated with trying to eat something too big.

Hope this helps!

Yes, I always have a bag of frozen mixed veggies in the freezer BUT I don't let them have the carrot cubes BECAUSE they are usually rubbery. I pick them out and just soak the rest in hot water for a few minutes then squish each pea, corn kernal and lima bean between my finger tips so it's easier for them to eat. No point them eating them if they come out whole. I shred them fresh carrot and pile the rest on top. They also like shredded sweet potato.



I had some baby iguana vitamin pellets left over from when I had the iguanas, I bought a case, and the pellets are very tiny and the beardies just gobble them up. I tasted some and they actually taste very good.

Here they are when I first brought them home. They were about 6 weeks old and I hadn't even given them names yet. I wanted to live with them for a while before I named them:



That is a piece of fake fur on top of a heating pad. Baby lizards just LOVE it. They scoot around on it like little motor boats then fall alseep. Must be something in their genetics with fur. I used to use real fur but try washing lizard poop out of that. Plus the heating pad destroys real skins after a while. It just disintegrates so fake fur is much better and it's washable.



You can see she is only about 6 1/2 inches long at 6 or 7 weeks. I haven't measured them since. I will do that tomorrow just for my own curiosity but they have grown quite a bit.

Here they are kissing in a bed of bean sprouts in the sun. Soooo cute.

They are sooo awesome!

My son always felt bad and like I said before, he was very good with his iguana (the one that jumped into the hot water pipes in the wall) but he couldn't leave his out like you do, it would always scurry away. He would love to see this and how you are with yours for sure.

Wonderful "Baby Pictures" !!!

I've got quite a few.

Do you think that makes it easier, having more than one? And what do you do when they get five feet long? Beardies don't get quite as long as the iguanas, right?

A full grown Beardie is less than a foot long.

I love it the bigger they are. They are a lot of fun when they get HUGE. More like a puppy. I had one once, it was kind of odd, he grew to 7 feet. No one believed me at the petstore so I brought him in and they measured him, 7 feet 2 inches. They said "What are you feeding him?" Hahahaha. "Whatever he wants." I told them. This was the one that loved cake. He didn't have it too often but if he knew there was CAKE in the house he just waited for me to get some then he'd come AMoochin.

The really big ones sleep with me. I have a big bed so they have their own side with little pillows I make them, their heating pads and wrapped up in flannel, baby blankets. I DO have a very, large tank if things get crazy, someone HAS to go if they don't settle down. Once they go to sleep for the night they don't move and usually will sleep 10 to 12 hours. Unless of course it's a male and he's horny. Hahahahaha. I had one, the same big one that liked cake, he'd crawl up on my chest, do push-ups and start sneezing up my nose to wake me up. I thought that was hysterical. I never got mad at him, he was just so cute and comical. I'd just get up and give him some food and water then go back to bed. He'd sit in the sunny window and watched cartoons til I got up.

Here is my little male watching Sesame Street. I often find him just standing there for hours. He is so intrigued:



Is that NOT the cutest thing you've ever seen??

Here they are in their morning tank in their water watching T.V. watching Curious George or Word Girl, I think. Or Barney, Hahahahahahahaaaa:



All Lizards just love picture books too, especially dinosaurs. I have a couple pop-up books, Freaks them Right Out. It's just too funny.

Navigaar, thank you so much for the photos and the anecdotes! I am just totally charmed by these little scaly guys. Who would have thought that they liked tv? Or picture books? You can just see the intelligence and personality on the little beardie's face who is standing up in the photo, watching his tv program.

And those iguanas are gorgeous in the photo -- the two having their salad. And seven feet long -- wow! That's getting kind of like the Komodo dragon in our local zoo. I'll bet that would be fascinating having him lumbering around, eating cake!

Thanks again! You're teaching me a lot about lizards!

When I was little girl I travelled to an island off the coast of Africa with my Dad. We visited a friend of his who had a home in the jungle. More like a plantation actually. This man had a Komodo Dragon INSIDE his house. When we first entered the room it was laying across the back of a sofa. Then it moved. I wasn't expecting it was alive. He had it since it was a baby and it was relatively tame. We spent some time with it. I think that's when I really started to appeciate reptiles. But man his breath!! WHOA!!! I wasn't afraid of it but he did warn us to be careful. He was actually very friendly and well fed. I wish I could remember it's name. It'll come to me probably in the middle of the night. It was over 20 years ago.

What a cutie, aye? He looks like a juvenile. At full grown they are about 10 feet.