beardies need the protein that insects provide. however, some of them will eat dead crickets (ask beginnerbasics, i dont know how she tricked em into it but i can vouch that my boy really does eat prekilled) or you can give them isnects that are less annoying than crickets. housing wise, you can increase size overtime, but thats mroe expensive in the long run. the big problem is some enclosures, like a 10 gal tank, are too small to allow the temperature gradient they need (having the whole thing in the upper 90s is no good heh).
i think personality is pretty much an individual thing. my little girl runs and gapes when i try to pick her up, and she even bites sometimes (hoping she'll grow out of that). she likse to jump off me when im holding her. even so, it doesnt compare to a iguana that hasnt been tamed or many monitors. as unfriendly as she is, its not painful or anything and may go away as she learns to trust me more. my new boy, who's older andb igger than her, seems to lvoe nothing more than being held or rubbed...he even closes his eyes as though he's super content. so its largely luck of the draw.

and thats abotu as much as i can comment, being nowhere near the expert many of the other people here are
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1.0.0 ball python (mr snake),0.0.1 albino florida kingsnake (CK),1.0.0 leopard gecko (sebastian),0.1.0 colombian rainbow boa (luce),1.1.0 bearded dragon (kaipo and dulce), 1.1.0 colombian redtailed boas (adam and eve)

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